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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

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