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.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Friends... they cherish one another's dreams. They are kind to one another's dreams

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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