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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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