Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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

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

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

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

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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