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

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.