No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

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

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

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

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.