Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
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.
