Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
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
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
