A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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