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granting that we had both the will and the sense to choose our friends well, how few of us have the power! or, at least, how limited, for most, is the sphere of choice!

Even the commonest men reserve the violent, the sulky, the undisguisedly selfish side of their character for those who have no power to withstand it.

Now to keep faithful to the pure Counsellor, and under trying Circumstances suffer Adversity for Righteousness Sake, in this there is a Reward.

Running in this Road I found many like myself; and we associated in that which is the reverse of true Friendship.

While I silently ponder on that Change wrought in me, I find no Language equal to it, nor any Means to convey to another a clear Idea of it.

Deep-rooted Customs, though wrong, are not easily altered; but it is the Duty of every one to be firm in that which they certainly know is right for them.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

For them all is suspicion and anxiety; for them there is no possibility of friendship.

it is in regard to friendship, as in so many other things, so supple and sensitive that it expands, so to speak, at a friend's good fortune, contracts at his misfortunes

Fire and water themselves, to use a common expression, are not of more universal use than friendship.

Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.

Affected of course I am by the loss of a friend as I think there will never be again, such as I can fearlessly say there never was before.

In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.

Go as far as you dare in the heart of a lonely land, you cannot go so far that life and death are not before you.

Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful

Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when you lay down on the pillow at night, no matter who’s in our bed we all sleep alone.

There is nothing to which nature seems so much to have inclined us, as to society

We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another

Whereas in friendship, 'tis a general and universal fire, but temperate and equal, a constant established heat, all gentle and smooth, without poignancy or roughness.

a man should, at the first approaches, favour their grief and express some approbation of their sorrow

Moreover men commonly deceive themselves in respect of the love which they imagine others bear them, nor can ever be sure of it until they have put it to the proof.

a prince should entrust his friends with so much authority only as leaves a certain interval between his position and theirs