"Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever; Do lovely things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song."

"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song."

"Rari quippe boni: numero vix sunt totidem quot Thebarum portæ, vel divitis ostia Nili."

"How near to good is what is fair!"

"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re."

"Gentleness, as opposed to an irascible temper, greatly contributes to the tranquility and happiness of life, by preserving the mind from perturbation, and arming it against the assaults of calumny and malice."

"ternura, la palabra pequeña, familiar/que cabía en mi boca."

"He is gentil that doth gentil dedis."

"Peragit tranquilla potestas Quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget Imperiosa quies."

"La violence est juste où la douceur est vaine."

"The mildest manners and the gentlest heart."

"Plus fait douceur que violence."

"At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo."

"Gentle to others, to himself severe."

"What would you have? your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness."

"Let gentleness my strong enforcement be."

"They are as gentle As zephyrs blowing below the violet."

"Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:"

"Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! give me them that will face me."

"Out upon this half-fac'd fellowship!"

"For who not needs shall never lack a friend, And who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him his enemy."

"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."

"Most friendship is feigning."

"We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together; And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable."

"Keep thy friend Under thy own life's key."

"A true friend can be a blood or legal relation. They can be in the same clique or neighborhood or workplace. They can belong to the same racial, cultural, religious, or national group. But a true “friend” asks the right questions about category itself, and thereby transcends it. A true friend has the conversation."

"The ending inevitably matches the beginning: the person who starts being friends with you because it pays him will similarly cease to be friends with you because it pays him."

"Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet."

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

"Although organizational research on workplace friendships is well established, it has been criticized for its predominately postpositivistic outlook, which largely focuses on how workplace friendships can be linked to improving organizational outcomes such as efficiency and performance. As a consequence, other aspects of the lived experiences of work and friendship are obscured, in particular how these friendships are important in their own right and how they function as social and personal relationships."

"“You are my friend,” said the alien, nothing about his voice out of the ordinary. “And from all that is possible, I wish you the best.”"

"Friendship is a cadence of divine melody melting through the heart."

"Character is so largely affected by associations that we cannot afford to be indifferent as to who and what our friends are. They write their names in our albums, but they do more, they help make us what we are. Be therefore careful in selecting them; and when wisely selected, never sacrifice them."

"The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of those whose faces we shall behold no more appear greater and more sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre."

"I consider beyond all wealth, honor, or even health, is the attachment due to noble souls; because to become one with the good, generous, and true, is to be, in a manner, good, generous, and true yourself."

"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new * * * is neither strong nor pure."

"Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate."

"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."

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it."

"God save me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies."

"Fidus Achates."

"Ego meorum solus sum meus."

"Then came your new friend: you began to change— I saw it and grieved."

"O friendship, equal-poised control, O heart, with kindliest motion warm, O sacred essence, other form, O solemn ghost, O crowned soul!"

"Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls."