Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.