Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

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