It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.