Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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