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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

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

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.