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

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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

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

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

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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

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

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

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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.