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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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