Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.