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

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

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

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

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