A faithful friend is hard to find.良友難能可貴。

　　Familiar paths and old friends are the best.

　　熟路好遵循，老朋友最可珍。

　　Friendship multiplies joys and divides griefs.

　　友情可以增加快樂，可以分攤憂慮。

　　A joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend.

　　開玩笑的總不可以禍福相依，反倒有時候會喪失朋友。

　　Admonish your friends in private, praise them in public.

　　在私下要勸告你的朋友，在公共場合又夸獎你的朋友。

　　A friend is a second self.

　　朋友是另一個我。

　　One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

　　一生有一個朋友就可以了，有兩個則過多，三個則難以存有。

　　A life without a friend is a life without a sun.

　　人的一生無朋友，宛如生活無日光。

　　A hedge between keeps friendship green.

　　有一道隔斷墻會維持友情長青。

　　Life without a friend is death without a witness.

　　健在無朋友，去世后無見證人。

　　A true friend is known in the day of adversity.

　　疾風知勁草，患難見真情。

　　A friend in need is a friend indeed.

　　患難見真交。

　　A friend is never known till a man has need.

　　不上患難時，始終不可以了解真真正正的朋友。

　　A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.

　　遠親不如近鄰。

　　Friendship the older it grows the stronger it is.

　　友誼地久天長。

　　A father is a treasure, a brother is a comfort, but a friend is both.

　　爸爸是資本，兄弟是寬慰，朋友兼而有之。