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

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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

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

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

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

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