Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Friendship is love without his wings!
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.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
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.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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, as it were, a second self.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.