Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
