"When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.""

"Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends—those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work—who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now?—now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail—if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."

"Never Explain—your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway"

"The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends,And no investment on the street pays larger dividends,For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent,And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent."

"Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods."

"If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere."

"Death is mighty, and is no one's friend."

"A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does."

"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."

"And friend received with thumps upon the back."

"You that would judge me, do not judge alone This book or that, come to this hallowed place Where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon, Ireland's history in their lineaments trace, Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends."

"Others because you did not keep"

"I have lost friends, some by death [...] others through sheer inability to cross the street."

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature — it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist — to sympathise with a friend's success."

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

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

"Old friends are the great blessing of one's latter years—half a word conveys one's meaning. They have memory of the same events, and have the same mode of thinking."

"Les méchants n’ont que des complices; les voluptueux ont des compagnons de débauche; les intéressés ont des associés; les politiques assemblent des factieux; le commun des hommes oisifs a des liaisons; les princes ont des courtisans; les hommes vertueux ont seuls des amis."

"If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship."

"Well, I think it’s easier to develop friendships but I’m not so sure when you get back down to the traditional sense, and that would be the friends that are here in good times and bad. I’m not so sure necessarily how many of those friends would be around if things did take a turn for the worst. I’ve oftentimes thought that I’d like to test some people and find out and just played a little game of doing the testing and which has been done on occasion. But it’s very easy to develop friends but it’s very hard to see whether or not they’re real friends."

"Friendship is not for merriment but for stern reproach when friends go astray."

"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."

"Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

"Confidence is the only bond of friendship."

"That my friend should be well is our wish, and that our enemies should be gone! May those friendly to you reach their goal as a ship does a friendly harbour! May your enemy, like the flood waters of a river, return to his city."

"If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend."

"What matter that the man stands for much I cannot love—the moment he touches the realms of truth he enters my world and is my friend."

"Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory."

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But deceitful are the kisses of an enemy."

"A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."

"A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity."

"I don’t care what a man’s character is, if he’s my friend, a true friend, I will be a friend to him and preach the Gospel of salvation to him, and give him good counsel, helping him out of his difficulties. Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease, and men to become friends and brothers..."

"He who betrays a secret is no longer trusted; he will no longer find reliable friends. Love your friend and be loyal; if you have revealed his secrets, go with him no longer. It is like having lost some of your relatives: his friendship to you has died. Like a bird, you have let your friend go, you will not get him back. When you open your hand, the bird flies off; do not pursue him: he is far away and has fled like a gazelle from the snare. For a wound can be bandaged and an insult forgiven, but if you betray a secret there is no hope."

"A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure. A faithful friend is beyond price, no sum can balance his worth."

"Do I not most effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?"

"Remembrance and regrets, they too are a part of friendship."

"The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie."

"For by these Shall I try friends: you shall perceive how you Mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my friends."

"Friendship's full of dregs."

"I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me."

"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

"Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent."

"Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart."

"I would be friends with you and have your love."

"When did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?"

"To wail friends lost Is not by much so wholesome — profitable, As to rejoice at friends but newly found."

"A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are."

"As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart."