Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.
To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.
Men only become friends by community of pleasures.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself, and the others for themselves.
Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
