Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.