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

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

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

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

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

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.