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

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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.