Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
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.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of 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.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
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.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
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.
Friendship is love without his wings!
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
