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.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.