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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Friendship is love without his wings!

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.