Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.