Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Old friends are best.

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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