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

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

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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