Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

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

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