The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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.