In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.