Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
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.
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.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
I get by with a little help from my friends.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
A man should never neglect his family for business.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.