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

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

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

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.