There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

When two people first meet they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other when you get close to them you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

I understand by this passion the union of desire friendship and tenderness which is inflamed by a single female which prefers her to the rest of her sex and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

The dupe of friendship and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

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.