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

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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.

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

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

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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.

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

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.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.