The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

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

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

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Friendship is love without his wings!

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

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

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.