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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

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

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.