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

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

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

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

I get by with a little help from my friends.