Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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 blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

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

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

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

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

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.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.