As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.

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

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

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

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

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