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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.