Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
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.
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.