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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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