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.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

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

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

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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

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

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

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

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

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.