—H. W. Beecher
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspected as it does religion.
—Wycherley
The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.
—Lord Chesterfield
Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship.
—Channing
The services which cement friendship are reciprocal services. A feeling of dependence is scarcely compatible with friendship.
—William Smith
It is better to break off a thousand friendships than to endure the sight of a single enemy.