Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

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

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

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

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

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.