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

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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.