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.

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

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

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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.

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

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