Part 2

Give me the avow’d, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.

--George Canning

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

--Henry D. Thoreau

Common friendships will admit of division; one may love the beauty of this, the good humor of that person, the liberality of a third, the paternal affection of a fourth, the fraternal love of a fifth, and so on. But this friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

--Montaigne

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

--Coleridge

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference that alone constitutes true and perfect friendship.

--La Rochefoucauld

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude.

--George Eliot

In friendship I early was taught to believe.

--Byron

In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow Thou’rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, That there’s no living with thee, or without thee.

--Addison

Friendship of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

--Dryden

Love and friendship exclude one another.

--La Bruyère

Friendship is a severe sentiment, solidly seated, since it rests upon all that is highest in us, the purely intellectual part of us. What happiness to be able to say all that one feels to someone who comprehends one to the very end and not only up to a certain point, to someone who completes one’s thought with the same word that was on one’s lips, someone the reply of whom starts from one a torrent of conceptions, a flood of ideas!

--Pierre Loti

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.

--Cowper

Judge before friendship, then confide till death.

--Young

Have no friend not equal to yourself.

--Confucius