Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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