You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

Real friends stab you in the front.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.