Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

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

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

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.