Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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

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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.