All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.

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.

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

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.

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.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

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 has its illusions no less than love.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

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.