Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.