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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

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

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