But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.