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.

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

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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

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

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.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.