Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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.

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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