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

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.