You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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.

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

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

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

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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