One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

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

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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.