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

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

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