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

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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.

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

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

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.