Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

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.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.