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

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.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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

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

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

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

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

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.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.