Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.