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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

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

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

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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

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

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.

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

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.