Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

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

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.

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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Children make your life important.