A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

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