Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you’re suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.