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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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