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.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
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.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.