Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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