Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.