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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

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

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.