Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

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

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

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.

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.