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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.