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

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

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

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.