Friendship

The following quotes on friendship were taken from my great-grandmother’s Friendship Birthday Book, Copyright 1913 by Barse & Hopkins Publishers of New York. I found them very enjoyable and insightful–I hope you will, too. -The Editor

“A pure friendship inspires, cleanses, expands, and strengthens the soul” -William Alger

“Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.” -Hugh Black

“Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
demand alliance, and in friendship burn.” -Addison

“‘Tis thus that on the choice of friends
our good or evil name depends.”

“We attract hearts by the qualities we display;
we retain them by the qualities we possess.” -Suard

“Rejoice in all the honors which come to those you know. That you know them makes you, in a sense, a partner in their fame; that you rejoice with them brings you their friendship.” -Henry Worthington

“A beloved friend does not fill one part of the soul, but, penetrating the whole, becomes connected with all feeling.”
-William Ellery Channing

“No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl.” -Landor

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends.” -Washington Irving

“Suspicion is well in its place, but one cultivates it at the expense of friendliness. And it is better to have friends than suspicions.” -Bruce Henderson

“Fair weather friends are plentiful and pleasant,
but blessed is the friend who shares our rainy days.” -Mebe

“Cultivate friendliness, for it is the seed of friendship.” -Amy C. Pride

“A true friend is a gift of God,
and He only who made hearts can unite them.”

“Seek no friend to make him useful, for that is the negation of friendship; but seek him that you may be useful, for this is of friendship’s essence.” -Henry Wallace

“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
-C. Raymond Beran

“If the desire were to be a friend, to do others good, to serve, and to give help, it would be a far more Christ-like longing, and would transform the life and character.”" J.R. Miller

“If we choose our friends for what they are, not for what they have, and if we deserve so great a blessing, then they will be always with us, preserved in absence, and even after death in the amber of memory.” -Lord Avebury