I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.