Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.