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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Children make your life important.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

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

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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