“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.”

“If you find one true friend in life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed.”

“if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed."

She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.”

“Life without friends is like a mirrorless life, friends are like a mirror that connects you to yourself. Life without friends seems like an incomplete picture in which there is no color, friends make our colorless world colorful and life beautiful.”

“Its okay to be poor since poverty is a temporally state but never okay for a poor person to keep poor friends, the best among friends is one that adds value to your life not subtract, a good friend should be an Asset not a liability.”

“Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.”

“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”

“What is there in life except one's ideas.
Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
Is it ideas that I believe?”

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

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