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

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

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

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

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