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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

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

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

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

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

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

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.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

There is no friend as loyal as a book.