In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

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

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

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

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.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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.

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.