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.

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.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

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

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

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

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

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.