Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.