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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.