True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Oliver Goldsmith

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone Weil

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

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal

Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thomas Moore

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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason Cooley

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Edgar Watson Howe

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt

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!
William Hazlitt

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.
William Hazlitt

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.
William Hazlitt

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
William Hazlitt

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge