A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.