We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

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

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.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

Friendship is love without his wings!

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.