Quotes on Friendship

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.

You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.