Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Friendship is love without his wings!

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

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

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.