Familiarity

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal