True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.