The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship is love without his wings!

Between friends there is no need of justice.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

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