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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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.