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

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

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

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.