Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

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

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

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

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

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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