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

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

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

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.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

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

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

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