Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

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

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

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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