An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

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

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

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