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

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

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

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

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Children make your life important.

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Adversity tests the sincerity of 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.