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

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.

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.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

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

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Children make your life important.

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.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.