Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
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.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
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.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
