To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
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
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
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.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
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.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.