You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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.

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy