Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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 who has the same enemies as you have.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.