Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Children make your life important.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

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

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

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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.