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

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.