A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

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

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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