It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

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

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

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

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

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