If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

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