A friend to all is a friend to none.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

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

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

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

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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