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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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.