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.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

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

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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.

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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

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.