Ardent Quote by Mason Cooley

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or…

— David Hume

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind:…

— Miles Franklin

Friendship wraps itself around the heart like a warm blanket of care.

— Anonymous

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

— Alexander Pope

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days,…

— Washington Irving

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

— Thomas Moore

Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

— Plutarch

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

— Saadi

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters…

— William Hazlitt