Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.