Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

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.