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

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

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

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.