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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

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

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.

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

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.