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

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.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

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.

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

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

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.