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

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

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

Friendship is love without his wings!

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.