Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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.

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings