The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
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.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Real friends stab you in the front.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.