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

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

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

True friends stab you in the front.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Friends are born, not made.