To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
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.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
