Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

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

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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