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

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings