True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
