Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Children make your life important.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.