Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

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

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.