Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
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.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
