I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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