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.

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.