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

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.