—Franklin
No discovery of defect in a character essentially good can so dampen friendship as the suspicion that something is kept back.
—Channing
Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
—Hafiz
The dearest thing in nature is not comparable to the dearest thing of friendship.
—Jeremy Taylor
There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
—Emerson
The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him.