It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.
It is often the case that one learns more about a person from their enemies than from their friends.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
It is a true saying, that ‘a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.’
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
In friendship one friend is always sacrificed to the other.
In divining and keeping silence shall the friend be a master: not everything must thou wish to see.
If you won’t be my friend, you’ll regret being my enemy.
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
If you desire to get on in the world, friends and acquaintances are by far the best passport to fortune.
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.