Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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