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.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Children make your life important.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

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