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

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.