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

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

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

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.