The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. 582
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. 690
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. 587
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. 1.71K
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. 623
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! 658
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. 1.9K
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! 634
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. 839
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. 669
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. 1.36K
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. 727
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. 696
