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

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

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

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.