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

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

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.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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