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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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

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

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

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

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

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

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.