A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

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

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.

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

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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

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

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

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.