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 is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.