Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Friendship is love without his wings!

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

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

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

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

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

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

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

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

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.