"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame."

"Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?"

"Jealousy. The person who hasn't felt it cannot know how much it hurts, or imagine the madness committed in its name."

"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."

"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."

"Nature and religion are the bands of friendship, excellence and usefulness are its great endearments."

"Friendship is like rivers, and the strand of seas, and the air, common to all the world; but tyrants, and evil customs, wars, and want of love, have made them proper and peculiar."

"When I choose my friend, I will not stay till I have received a kindness; but I will choose such a one that can do me many if I need them; but I mean such kindnesses which make me wiser, and which make me better."

"Choose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, ingenious and honest, and in those things which have a latitude, use your own liberty."

"A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained; and indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen."

"Secrete amicos admone, lauda palam."

"Amicum lædere ne joco quidem licet."

"Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum."

"I thought you and he were hand-in-glove."

"It's an owercome sooth fo' age an' youth, And it brooks wi' nae denial, That the dearest friends are the auldest friends, And the young are just on trial."

"'Tis something to be willing to commend; But my best praise is, that I am your friend."

"For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price."

"For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best."

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence."

"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."

"To hear him speak, and sweetly smile You were in Paradise the while."

"Amicitia semper prodest, amor etiam aliquando nocet."

"Perhaps it is the deprivation that keeps hearts connected. Once everything is fulfilled, wings sprout in everyone’s heart, and they fly off to different destinations. How can a relationship stay warm with just the body, when the heart is absent?""

"Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed."

"Dear is my friend—yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good: My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should."

"Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided."

"Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est."

"There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold soone decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe."

"Mine own familiar friend."

"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend."

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend."

"A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."

"Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear, (A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear.)"

"There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue."

"Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum."

"Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them."

"Cætera fortunæ, non mea, turba fuit."