The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

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.

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

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

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

A man should never neglect his family for business.