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

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Joseph Brodsky

FRIENDSHIP, CHERISH YOUR HUMAN CONNECTIONS

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

enemies, friends

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville

FRIENDSHIP, FRIENDSHIP AT FIRST SIGHT

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Elbert Hubbard

man who know, till likes you

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

friendship, precious, shade

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

shameful. distrust, friends

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.