Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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

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

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.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

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.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.