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.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

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

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

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.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.