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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.