Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

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

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.