Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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

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.

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

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.