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.

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

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.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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.

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.

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

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.