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

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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