One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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