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.

But it all comes down to friendship treating people right.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

General benevolence but not general friendship made a man what he ought to be.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

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.

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.

Real friendship like real poetry is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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.