Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

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

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