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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.