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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

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

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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