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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship