Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

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

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

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

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.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

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

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

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

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.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.