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

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Real friends stab you in the front.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Friendship is love without his wings!

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

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.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.