The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Children make your life important.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
