Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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

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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.