Part 15

O friendship, flavor of flowers! O lively sprite of life! O sacred bond of blissful peace, the stalworth staunch of strife!

--Nicholas Grimald

The man who has no enemies deserves to have no friends.

--R. C. MacDonald

He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.

--Thomas Fuller

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

--Landor

Faith and friendship are seldom truly tried, but in extremes.

--Owen Felltham

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

--Dr. Johnson

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.

--George Washington

We lose some friends for whose loss we regret more than we grieve; and others whose departure causes us grief, but not regret.

--La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

--Augustine Birrel

You, who forget your own friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob.

--Thackeray

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

--A. Bronson Alcott

To have the same desires and the same aversions is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

--Sallust

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

--Henry D. Thoreau

Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind’s delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied!

--Samuel Johnson