True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.

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.

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

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.