Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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

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

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

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