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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

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

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

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

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

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

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