One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

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.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Children make your life important.

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

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

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.

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.