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.

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 but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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