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

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

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

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.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

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

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

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

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.