The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

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.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Children make your life important.

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.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

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

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.