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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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