A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
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.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
