If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

When the world is so complicated the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy it lessens our cares by dividing them at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings their weakness. It's also about mutual help not about exploitation.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

I think in friendship you want to be there for your friend and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.