Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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.

Children make your life important.

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.

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

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.