Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.