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

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

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

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

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