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.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
