The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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

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

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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