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

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

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

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.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

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

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

Friendship is love without his wings!

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.