To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

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

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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

Children make your life important.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.