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.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
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
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.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
