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

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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.

Children make your life important.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

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

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