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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

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

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

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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