Beneficence Quote by Samuel Johnson

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

— Cardinal Richelieu

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

— Anonymous

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

— Anonymous

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

— George Edward Woodberry

Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.

— Susan W. Tanner

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

— Epicurus

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it…

— Ouida

The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.

— Patch Adams

Friendship may just be nature's perfect miracle.

— Anonymous