A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

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

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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.

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

A friend is, as it were, a second self.