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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

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.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

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.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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.