Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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.

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

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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

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

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

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back