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

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.