True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

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

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.