The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.