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

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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