True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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

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

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

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.