To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

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

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

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