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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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 multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.