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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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

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 friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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