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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.