Friend
Nations are not influenced, as individuals may be, by disinterested friendships; but, when it is their interest to live in amity, we have little reason to apprehend any rupture.
A spirit of equal liberty appears fast to be gaining ground every where; which must afford satisfaction to every friend of mankind.
One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather.
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

