Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
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
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
