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

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

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

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.