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

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

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

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

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.