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.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

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

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Friendship is love without his wings!

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Children make your life important.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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