The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.