There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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

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

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.