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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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

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

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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

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

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

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.