I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.