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

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

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

Children make your life important.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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.

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

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.