We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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

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

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

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Children make your life important.

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

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

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

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

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.