Part 16

Friendship heightens all our affections. We receive all the ardor of our friends in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to each the fervor of each.

--Channing

Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality!

--Farquhar

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

--Joseph Roux

Something like home, that is not home, is to be desired; it is to be found in the house of a friend.

--Sir William Temple

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

--Dr. Johnson

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.

--Thomas Fuller

When men are friends, there is no need of justice; but when they are just, they still need friendship.

--Aristotle

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself; we cannot force it any more than love.

--William Hazlitt

In friendship, your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

--H. W. Beecher

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspected as it does religion.

--Wycherley

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

--Lord Chesterfield

Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship.

--Channing

The services which cement friendship are reciprocal services. A feeling of dependence is scarcely compatible with friendship.

--William Smith

It is better to break off a thousand friendships than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

--Saadi