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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

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

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.