Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.