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

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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

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

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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.

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

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.