--Henry D. Thoreau
There is nothing sweeter than a warm friendship, but continual emotion
embitters.
--Joseph Reinach
Dear is my friend--but from my foe, as from
My friend, comes good; the first what I can do
Shows, and the second what I should.
--Schiller
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts
and follows.
--Jean Paul Richter
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
--C. N. Bovee
One must shed his blood to serve his friends and to avenge himself upon
his enemies; otherwise he is not worthy of the name of man.
--Voltaire
Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one
another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result.
--Henry D. Thoreau
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
--Addison
Mutual comprehension makes for friendship, and militates against love;
for love--like modern society papers--must have a “puzzle column” for
those that take it in.
--Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
Whatever the number of a man’s friends, there will be times in his life
when he has one too few.
--Bulwer-Lytton
The friendship of a great man is a gift of the gods.
--Voltaire
Ah! were I sever’d from thy side,
Where were thy friend, and who my guide?
Years have not seen, Time shall not see
The hour that tears my soul from thee.
--Byron
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in
the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
--C. N. Bovee
I have _friends_ in Spirit land,--
Not shadows in a shadowy band,
Not _others_ but _themselves_ are they;
And still I think of them the same
As when the Master’s summons came.
--Whittier
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is
the greatest happiness of existence.
--Sydney Smith
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min’?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o’ auld lang syne?
--Burns
No man has been able to discover how to give a friendly counsel to any
woman, not even to his wife.
--Balzac
In friendships, some are worthy, and some are necessary.
--Jeremy Taylor
You do not know how great is the value of friendship, if you do not
understand how much you give to him to whom you give a friend.
--Seneca
Faint heart never won true Friend. O my Friend, may it come to pass,
once, that when you are my Friend I may be yours.
--Henry D. Thoreau
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
--La Fontaine
Ceremony was but devis’d at first
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
--Shakespeare
Friends are companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to
persevere in the road to a happier life.
--Pythagoras
Have friends: It is the second existence. Every friend is good and wise
for his friend, and among them all gets well managed.
--Balthasar Gracian
When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when
they are absent, to speak of them well.
--Epictetus
To Friendship every burden’s light.
--John Gay
All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends,
And many friendships in the days of Time
Begun, are lasting here, and growing still.
--Robert Pollok
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting
from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
--Henry D. Thoreau
Friendship is immeasurably better than kindness.
--Cicero
The friendship that I have conceived will not be impaired by absence,
but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a
renewal of the covenant.
--George Washington
True friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.
--Plato
Purchase not friends with gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will
cease to love.
--Thomas Fuller
Everything is well, provided one reaches the end of the day, that one
sups and that one sleeps. The rest is “vanity of vanities,” as says
“the other.” But friendship is a veritable thing.
--Voltaire
Ah, how good it feels;
The hand of an old friend!
--Longfellow
No friend’s a friend till he shall prove a friend.
--Beaumont and Fletcher
We hate some persons because we do not know them, and we will not
know them because we hate them. The friendships that succeed to such
aversions are usually firm, for those qualities must be sterling that
could not only gain our hearts, but conquer our prejudices.
--Colton
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
--Shakespeare
O friendship, equal-poised control,
O heart with kindliest motion warm,
O sacred essence, other form,
O solemn ghost, O crowned soul!
--Tennyson
Who friendship with a knave hath made
Is judg’d a partner in the trade.
--John Gay
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
--Balthasar Gracian
Do not have evil-doers for friends; do not have low people for friends;
have virtuous people for thy friends; have for thy friends the best of
men.
--The Dhammapada
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
--The Book of Proverbs
What room can there be for friendship, or who can be a friend to anyone
whom he does not love for that one’s own sake?
--Cicero
Make no friendship with an angry man that is given to anger, and with a
furious man thou shalt not go.
--The Book of Proverbs
What ill-starr’d rage
Divides a friendship long confirm’d by age?
--Pope
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude
of friends has never had one.
--Coleridge
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not
crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men
can usually command.
--Emerson
Friendship is like rivers, and the strand of seas, and the air, common
to all the world; but tyrants, and evil customs, wars, and want of
love, have made them proper and peculiar.
--Jeremy Taylor
I hate where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly
resistance, to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the
side of your friend than his echo.
--Emerson
He who is a friend to everybody is nobody’s friend.
--Spanish Proverb
For tho’ the faults were thick as dust
Vacant chambers, I could trust
Your kindness.
--Tennyson
A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us, and
delights in us, does for us what we want, is willing and fully engaged
to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases.
--Channing
Friendship is Love, without either flowers or veil.
--J. C. and A. W. Hare
We call friendship the love of the Dark Ages.
--Mme. de Stael
Pure friendship is what none can attain to the taste of save those who
are well-born.
--La Bruyère
Friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand
the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
--Washington
I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of
its communications.
--Montaigne
No word is oftener on the lips of man than Friendship, and indeed no
thought is more familiar to their aspirations.
--Henry D. Thoreau
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to
the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
--Landor
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
--Emerson
He will find himself in a great mistake who either seeks a friend in a
palace, or tries him at a feast.
--Seneca
Friendship--_our_ friendship--is like the beautiful shadows of evening,
Spreading and growing till life and its light pass away.
--Michael Vitkovics
That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an end.
--Francis Quarles
Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rush to it, it may soon
run itself out of breath.
--Thomas Fuller
Friendship must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its
object as a god, that it may deify both.
--Emerson
True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d:
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
--Homer (Pope’s Tr.)
Real friendship is a slow grower and never thrives unless engrafted
upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.
--Lord Chesterfield
Friendship builds itself up: it is a sentiment which walks
circumspectly.
--Henry Murger
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.
--Emerson
You will forgive me, I hope, for the sake of the friendship between us,
Which is too true and too sacred to be so easily broken.
--Longfellow
Friendship, like love, is but a name,
Unless to one you stint the flame.
--John Gay
I do not wish to see my friends as I run; I want to enjoy them in long
draughts.
--Comte de Bussy Rabutin
For affection, or the faintest imitation of it, a man should be obliged
to his very dog. But for the gross assistance of patronage or purse,
let him pause before accepting them from anyone.
--Carlyle
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not.
--The Book of Proverbs
The only good friends are old friends.
--Voltaire
Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so
to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who
associates with your enemies.
--Saadi
To thrust aside a virtuous friend, I consider as bad as to thrust away
one’s own life, which one loves best.
--Sophocles
Friendship is one soul in two bodies.
--Pythagoras
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it
respect.
--Cicero
Friendship is no respecter of sex; and perhaps it is more rare between
the sexes, than between two of the same sex.
--Henry D. Thoreau
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish
of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
--Southey
As in the fire the yellow gold is tried,
So friendship’s faith can but be proved in time
Of dark adversity.
--Ovid
I always avoid contention, but if it shall happen, I had rather lose my
money than my friend.
--Erasmus
There are three faithful friends--an old wife, an old dog and ready
money.
--Franklin
No discovery of defect in a character essentially good can so dampen
friendship as the suspicion that something is kept back.
--Channing
Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the
unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
--Hafiz
The dearest thing in nature is not comparable to the dearest thing of
friendship.
--Jeremy Taylor
There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual
respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
--Emerson
The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept
and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him.
--Henry D. Thoreau
Friendship new is neither strong or pure.
--Young
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues.
--Shakespeare
A friendship that makes the least noise is often the most useful; for
which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.
--Addison
A faithful friend is a true image of the Deity.
--Napoleon
O friend! O best of friends! Thy absence more
Than the impending night darkens the landscape o’er!
--Longfellow
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through
their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and
grows old.
--Phillips Brooks
Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
--A. Bronson Alcott
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the
selfishness that chills like east-winds the world, the whole human
family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
--Emerson
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly.
--The Book of Proverbs
Friendship is the marriage of the soul.
--Voltaire
Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest
and some by souls.
--Jeremy Taylor
Friendship consists properly in mutual offices, and a generous strife
in alternate acts of kindness.
--Robert South
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
--Shakespeare
Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene;
Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.
--Young
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they
were easiest to his feet.
--John Selden
True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a
friend to himself is also a friend to mankind.
--Seneca
There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere
enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
--Bulwer-Lytton
Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition, or
the lust of power and grandeur.
--Junius
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is
most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
--Colton
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.
--Confucius
We must accept or refuse one another as we are. I could tame a hyena
more easily than my Friend. He is a material which no tool of mine will
work.
--Henry D. Thoreau
A true and noble friendship shrinks not at the greatest of trials.
--Jeremy Taylor
Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the
diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and
patience of the best mother.
--The Earl of Clarendon
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of
which all the world is agreed.
--Cicero
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.
--Goldsmith
O friendship, flavor of flowers! O lively sprite of life!
O sacred bond of blissful peace, the stalworth staunch of strife!
--Nicholas Grimald
The man who has no enemies deserves to have no friends.
--R. C. MacDonald
He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by
the bargain.
--Thomas Fuller
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl;
no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
--Landor
Faith and friendship are seldom truly tried, but in extremes.
--Owen Felltham
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one
of the duties of friendship.
--Dr. Johnson
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a
friend’s interest and inclination.
--George Washington
We lose some friends for whose loss we regret more than we grieve; and
others whose departure causes us grief, but not regret.
--La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart
warm.
--Augustine Birrel
You, who forget your own friends, meanly to follow after those of a
higher degree, are a snob.
--Thackeray
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
--A. Bronson Alcott
To have the same desires and the same aversions is assuredly a firm
bond of friendship.
--Sallust
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a
distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
--Henry D. Thoreau
Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven,
The noble mind’s delight and pride,
To men and angels only given,
To all the lower world denied!
--Samuel Johnson
Friendship heightens all our affections. We receive all the ardor of
our friends in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to
each the fervor of each.
--Channing
Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality!
--Farquhar
Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.
--Joseph Roux
Something like home, that is not home, is to be desired; it is to be
found in the house of a friend.
--Sir William Temple
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with
roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
--Dr. Johnson
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his
censure.
--Thomas Fuller
When men are friends, there is no need of justice; but when they are
just, they still need friendship.
--Aristotle
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself; we cannot
force it any more than love.
--William Hazlitt
In friendship, your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend
is in trouble.
--H. W. Beecher
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspected as
it does religion.
--Wycherley
The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships,
require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.
--Lord Chesterfield
Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of
friendship.
--Channing
The services which cement friendship are _reciprocal_ services. A
feeling of dependence is scarcely compatible with friendship.
--William Smith
It is better to break off a thousand friendships than to endure the
sight of a single enemy.
--Saadi
Nature and religion are the bands of friendship, excellency and
usefulness are its great endearments.
--Jeremy Taylor
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Transcriber’s note:
Obvious printer errors corrected silently.
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.