Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
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.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
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.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
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 shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Real friends stab you in the front.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
