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.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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