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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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