Reliability

Friendship: A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Blood is thicker than water

A friend in need is a friend indeed

His word is as good as his bond

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Friends show their love in times of trouble

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself

I will hold your hand but as long as all may, or so very little longer!

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature

As sure as God puts his children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts