Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure because of all the things granted us by wisdom none is greater or better than friendship.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable and the value of friendship and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things more precious than getting your own way more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Sixth grade was a big time in my childhood of hoops and friendship and coming up with funny things.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.