Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Children make your life important.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.