Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

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

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

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.