If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

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

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

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

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

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