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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.