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

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.