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

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

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.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

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.

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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