The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Real friends stab you in the front.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Children make your life important.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.