To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

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.

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

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.