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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

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

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

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.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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.