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

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.