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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.