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.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.

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

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

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Children make your life important.

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

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

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