Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

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

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle

Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau

Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde

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.
Edgar Allan Poe

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake

Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake