If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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

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

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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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.

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.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.