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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

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 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.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

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

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.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

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

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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