A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Real friends stab you in the front.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
