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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

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

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

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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