If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

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

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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