Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.