Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.