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

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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