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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.