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.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

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

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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