A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

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