Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Friendship is love without his wings!

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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