A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

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

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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

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