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.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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

Children make your life important.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

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

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

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

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