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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.