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.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

Children make your life important.

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

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