A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

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

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

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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.

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

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