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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. read more
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled read more
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is read more
We cannot tell the exact moment a 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 that makes the heart run over.
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend read more
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
