The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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