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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.