Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Children make your life important.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
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.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.