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

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

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.