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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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.

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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

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

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.