Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

But it all comes down to friendship treating people right.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

General benevolence but not general friendship made a man what he ought to be.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher and I would like to teach them something.

Real friendship like real poetry is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.

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

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere whether it is holding out a hand of friendship or making clear that you disapprove of something is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being so the goal is to always establish common ground.

There is a scarcity of friendship but not of friends.

If one of two lovers is loyal and the other jealous and false how may their friendship last for Love is slain!

Friendship increases in visiting friends but in visiting them seldom.

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.