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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Baltasar Gracian

companion, shade, friendship,

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

friendship, important, world, friends

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

Francis Quarles

which is begun for an end

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

friendship, precious, shade

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

glory, begin, friends

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.