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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.