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

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

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

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.