A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of 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.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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