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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.