The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
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.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
