A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy