Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

“My friends are my estate.” 

“Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.” 

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

“Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone’s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.”

“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”

“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one,” 

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Friendship is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death.

“You and I will always be friends."

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.” 

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.” 

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

Friendship demands a religious treatment. We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.

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

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” 

I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.

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

Friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, — that we find we have (a common Nature) — one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.