It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
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.
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.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
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.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Children make your life important.
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.
