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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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

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

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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

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