I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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

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

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

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.