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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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.

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

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

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