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

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

Friendship is love without his wings!

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy