There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

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

Children make your life important.

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

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

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

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.

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

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.