That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

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