Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.