Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

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

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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