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

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

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.