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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

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

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

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

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

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.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.