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

Children make your life important.

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

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.