A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Friendship is love without his wings!

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.