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

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

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

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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.

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.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back