The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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 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.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
Friendship is love without his wings!
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.
