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

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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.