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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

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

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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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