Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. ~ Richard Bach
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow. ~ Elbert Hubbard
A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start. ~ Mellin de Saint-Gelais
A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longest to be retained, and indeed never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen. Jeremy Taylor