Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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.
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
