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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

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

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.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

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 is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

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

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.