Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

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

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.