The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.