A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Children make your life important.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.