There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Between friends there is no need of justice.
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.
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.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
Friendship is love without his wings!
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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.