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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.