An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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