The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
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.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
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
Friendship is love without his wings!
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.