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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

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

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

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

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.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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

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

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

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

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.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.