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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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.

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

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

Friendship is love without his wings!

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

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

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

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