No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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

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

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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

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.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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

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.

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

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.