True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

Children make your life important.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.