Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

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

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

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

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.