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

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

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

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

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

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.

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