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

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

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.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

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

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

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