Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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.