Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any
other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to
the appellation.
It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
"There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom."
"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop
which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
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