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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.