There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands read more

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich read more

Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to read more

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
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Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth.
With friends there is not such a word as debt:
Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,
All benefits are there in common set.