If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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