Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

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

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

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

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

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

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.