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

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.

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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.