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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.