A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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