Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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

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

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

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

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

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.