Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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.

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.