Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
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
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.