Friendship

A good friend is a connection to life - 
a tie to the past, 
a road to the future, 
the key to sanity in a totally insane world. 
-Lois Wyse

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment
when we realize we have discovered a friend.
-William Rotsler

There is no faster or firmer friendships
than those formed between people who love the same books.
-Irving Stone

Friendship is evanescent
in every man's experience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I awoke this morning
with devout thanksgiving for my friends,
the old and the new.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable,
to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed,
and for whom you are grateful.
-William Arthur Ward

A friend is someone
whose presence you enjoy.
-Paul Williams

The most I can do for my friend
is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
-Henry David Thoreau

Friends are flowers in life's garden.
-Okakura Kakuzo  

The flower of friend
has not thorn
-The Oculatum

A companion loves some agreeable qualities
which a man may possess,
but a friend loves the man for himself.
-James Boswell

Our friendship has no other model than itself,
and can be compared only with itself.
-Michel de Montaigne

There is an important difference between love and friendship.
While the former delights in extremes and opposites,
the latter demands equality.
-Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon

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

Friendship is seldom lasting
but between equals.
-Samuel Johnson

Candor is a compliment;
it implies equality.
It is how true friends talk.
-Peggy Noonan

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him, I may think aloud.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
-Charles Lamb

What is more delightful
than to have a friend to whom you can tell everything
as you to yourself?
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When I see my friend after a long time,
my first question is,
Has anything become clear to you?
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The language of friends is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
-Henry David Thoreau

Friendship need no words.
-Dag Hammarskjold

Friends do not live in harmony merely,
as some say, but in melody.
-Henry David Thoreau

A real friend doubles my possibilities
and adds his strength to mine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is our friend who loves more than admires us,
and would aid us in our great work.
-William Ellery Channing

To contract ties of friendship with any one,
is to contract friendship with his virtue.
There ought not to be any other motive in friendship.
-Confucius

Friendship is the marriage of the soul.
-Voltaire

Two friends, two bodies
with one soul inspired.
-Alexander Pope

But here's the joy;
my friend and I are one.
-William Shakespeare

Every friend is to the other a sun,
and a sunflower also.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

True friendship does not freeze in the winter.
-German Proverb

A friend may well be reckoned
the masterpiece of nature.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is a rare book,
of which but one copy is made.
-Anonymous

We can never replace a friend.
-Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it
To the last article.
-William Shakespeare

The immense fulfillment of the friendships 
between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness
has a quality almost impossible to describe.
-Teilhard de Chardin