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

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

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

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.