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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

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