You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.