Friendship

"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, — Let there be truth between us two forevermore. * * * It is sublime to feel and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him; we need not reinforce ourselves or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself; if he did thus or thus, I know it was right."

"I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances."

"The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it."

"There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world."

"A sudden thought strikes me—Let us swear an eternal friendship."

"Friendship, like love, is but a name, Unless to one you stint the flame."

"To friendship every burden's light."

"Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade."

"'Tis thus that on the choice of friends Our good or evil name depends."

"An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse."

"Wer nicht die Welt in seinen Freunden sieht Verdient nicht, dass die Welt von ihm erfahre."

"And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?"

"Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart."

"A favourite has no friend."

"We never know the true value of friends. While they live, we are too sensitive of their faults; when we have lost them, we only see their virtues."

"Friendship closes its eye, rather than see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full."

"Friendship is Love, without either flowers or veil."

"Devout, yet cheerful; pious, not austere; To others lenient, to himself sincere."

"Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him."

"For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust."

"Fast as the rolling seasons bring The hour of fate to those we love, Each pearl that leaves the broken string Is set in Friendship's crown above. As narrower grows the earthly chain, The circle widens in the sky; These are our treasures that remain, But those are stars that beam on high."

"A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me."

"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd."

"Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit."

"True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit."

"The new is older than the old; And newest friend is oldest friend in this: That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss One thing we sought."

"If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."

"Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied."

"The endearing elegance of female friendship."

"To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage."

"True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. Nor would I have Virtue a popular regard pursue: Let them be good that love me, though but few."

"'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store."

"One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others."

"In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves."

"Love and friendship exclude each other."

"Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste."

"Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling?"

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."

"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."

"Alas! to-day I would give everything To see a friend's face, or hear a voice That had the slightest tone of comfort in it."

"My designs and labors And aspirations are my only friends."

"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."

"Quien te conseja encobria de tus amigos. Engañar te quiere assaz, y sin testigos."

"Nulla fides regni sociis omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erit."

"Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection."

"Women, like princes, find few real friends."

"A true friend is forever a friend."

"Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try."

"My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship."

"The wiser a man becomes the more numerous are the men whom he dislikes, only if he is really wise, he does not tell anyone of his dislikes, unless he finds it necessary to cement a friendship with a man (or a woman) by talking about a mutual enemy. There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy."