A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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

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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

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.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.