To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

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

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

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

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

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

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.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.