A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.
Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.
I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Many a friendship-long, loyal, and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.
We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day in, day out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, some of them will turn into friends.
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress, for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
