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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

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

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

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