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

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

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

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.

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

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

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

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Children make your life important.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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.

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.