My parents and librarians along the way taught me about the space between words about the margins where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed in the friendliest way.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
The fact is with every friendship you make and every bond of trust you establish you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad you're actually helping to make America stronger.
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
True happiness arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Love is friendship set on fire.
Friendship like love is destroyed by long absence though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Even in the common affairs of life in love friendship and marriage how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
Friendship is like money easier made than kept.
Opposition is true friendship.
In friendship as well as love ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Love friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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.
People come in and out of our lives and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.
Loyalty and friendship which is to me the same created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream when I lock into someone or something you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship that's a deal that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand that's for life.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.