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

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.