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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.