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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

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

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.