Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

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.

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