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

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.