Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Opposition is true friendship.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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