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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.