Part 2

I do not wish to see my friends as I run; I want to enjoy them in long draughts.

--Comte de Bussy Rabutin

For affection, or the faintest imitation of it, a man should be obliged to his very dog. But for the gross assistance of patronage or purse, let him pause before accepting them from anyone.

--Carlyle

Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not.

--The Book of Proverbs

The only good friends are old friends.

--Voltaire

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

--Saadi

To thrust aside a virtuous friend, I consider as bad as to thrust away one’s own life, which one loves best.

--Sophocles

Friendship is one soul in two bodies.

--Pythagoras

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

--Cicero

Friendship is no respecter of sex; and perhaps it is more rare between the sexes, than between two of the same sex.

--Henry D. Thoreau

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

--Southey

As in the fire the yellow gold is tried, So friendship’s faith can but be proved in time Of dark adversity.

--Ovid

I always avoid contention, but if it shall happen, I had rather lose my money than my friend.

--Erasmus

There are three faithful friends--an old wife, an old dog and ready money.

--Franklin

No discovery of defect in a character essentially good can so dampen friendship as the suspicion that something is kept back.

--Channing

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

--Hafiz

The dearest thing in nature is not comparable to the dearest thing of friendship.

--Jeremy Taylor

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

--Emerson

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him.

--Henry D. Thoreau

Friendship new is neither strong or pure.

--Young

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues.

--Shakespeare

A friendship that makes the least noise is often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.

--Addison

A faithful friend is a true image of the Deity.

--Napoleon

O friend! O best of friends! Thy absence more Than the impending night darkens the landscape o’er!

--Longfellow

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

--Phillips Brooks

Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.

--A. Bronson Alcott

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east-winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.

--Emerson

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly.

--The Book of Proverbs

Friendship is the marriage of the soul.

--Voltaire

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest and some by souls.

--Jeremy Taylor

Friendship consists properly in mutual offices, and a generous strife in alternate acts of kindness.

--Robert South

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

--Shakespeare

Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene; Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.

--Young

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet.

--John Selden

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind.

--Seneca

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

--Bulwer-Lytton

Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition, or the lust of power and grandeur.

--Junius

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

--Colton

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

--Confucius

We must accept or refuse one another as we are. I could tame a hyena more easily than my Friend. He is a material which no tool of mine will work.

--Henry D. Thoreau

A true and noble friendship shrinks not at the greatest of trials.

--Jeremy Taylor

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

--The Earl of Clarendon

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all the world is agreed.

--Cicero

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.

--Goldsmith

O friendship, flavor of flowers! O lively sprite of life! O sacred bond of blissful peace, the stalworth staunch of strife!

--Nicholas Grimald

The man who has no enemies deserves to have no friends.

--R. C. MacDonald

He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.

--Thomas Fuller

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

--Landor

Faith and friendship are seldom truly tried, but in extremes.

--Owen Felltham

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

--Dr. Johnson

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.

--George Washington

We lose some friends for whose loss we regret more than we grieve; and others whose departure causes us grief, but not regret.

--La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

--Augustine Birrel

You, who forget your own friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob.

--Thackeray

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

--A. Bronson Alcott

To have the same desires and the same aversions is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

--Sallust

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

--Henry D. Thoreau

Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind’s delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied!

--Samuel Johnson

Friendship heightens all our affections. We receive all the ardor of our friends in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to each the fervor of each.

--Channing

Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality!

--Farquhar

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

--Joseph Roux

Something like home, that is not home, is to be desired; it is to be found in the house of a friend.

--Sir William Temple

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

--Dr. Johnson

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.

--Thomas Fuller

When men are friends, there is no need of justice; but when they are just, they still need friendship.

--Aristotle

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

--William Hazlitt

In friendship, your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

--H. W. Beecher

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspected as it does religion.

--Wycherley

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

--Lord Chesterfield

Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship.

--Channing

The services which cement friendship are _reciprocal_ services. A feeling of dependence is scarcely compatible with friendship.

--William Smith

It is better to break off a thousand friendships than to endure the sight of a single enemy.

--Saadi

Nature and religion are the bands of friendship, excellency and usefulness are its great endearments.

--Jeremy Taylor

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Transcriber’s note:

Obvious printer errors corrected silently.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.