You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
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.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
