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.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

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

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

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

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

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.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

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