Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy