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

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

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.

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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

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

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

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

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