True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Friendship is love without his wings!
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
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.
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.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
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.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
