The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
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 is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
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.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
