Favorite quotes

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

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

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.