Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Friendship is love without his wings!
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
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.
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.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
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.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
