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

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

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

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

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

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

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

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.