The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.