Part 11

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

--Landor

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

--Emerson

He will find himself in a great mistake who either seeks a friend in a palace, or tries him at a feast.

--Seneca

Friendship--our friendship--is like the beautiful shadows of evening, Spreading and growing till life and its light pass away.

--Michael Vitkovics

That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an end.

--Francis Quarles

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

--Thomas Fuller

Friendship must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it may deify both.

--Emerson

True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d: Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

--Homer (Pope’s Tr.)

Real friendship is a slow grower and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.

--Lord Chesterfield

Friendship builds itself up: it is a sentiment which walks circumspectly.

--Henry Murger

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

--Emerson

You will forgive me, I hope, for the sake of the friendship between us, Which is too true and too sacred to be so easily broken.

--Longfellow

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

--John Gay

I do not wish to see my friends as I run; I want to enjoy them in long draughts.

--Comte de Bussy Rabutin