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.

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

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

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

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

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.

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

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

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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

Friendship is love without his wings!

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.