A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
Friendship
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.
Friendship’s the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure.
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.