Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

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

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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

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

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you