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

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

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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

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 someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

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

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.