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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

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