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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

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

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.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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

Children make your life important.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.