Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.