Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. -Samuel Johnson.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions

How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?