Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
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.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
