Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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

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

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

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

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.