Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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 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.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
