A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.
No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.
Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself.
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.