The second fruit of friendship, is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections.
Add now, to make this second fruit of friendship complete, that other point, which lieth more open, and falleth within vulgar observation; which is faithful counsel from a friend.
The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood.
It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
"'Hans, I am surprised at you,' said the Miller; 'friendship never forgets.
I think that generosity is the essence of friendship, and, besides, I have got a new wheelbarrow for myself.
do not go away!" exclaimed D'Artagnan, impelled by one of those irresistible impulses which showed the nobility of his nature, the native brightness of his character; "I swear that I would give the last drop of my blood and the last fragment of my limbs to preserve the
friendship of such a friend as you, Athos -- of such a man as you, Aramis." And he threw himself into the arms of Athos.
"Can girls then only feel friendship?" inquired Charles, taking the seat which Miss Emmerson had relinquished.
"Men, you say, are too gross to feel a pure friendship; in the first place, please to explain yourself on this point."
This same mode of proceeding I shall have to adopt with thee, for the desire which has sprung up in thee is so absurd and remote from everything that has a semblance of reason, that I feel it would be a waste of time to employ it in reasoning with thy simplicity, for at present I will call it by no other name; and I am even tempted to leave thee in thy folly as a punishment for thy pernicious desire; but the friendship I bear thee, which will not allow me to desert thee in such manifest danger of destruction, keeps me from dealing so harshly by thee.
"Thou dost reckon me thy friend, and thou wouldst rob me of honour, a thing wholly inconsistent with friendship; and not only dost thou aim at this, but thou wouldst have me rob thee of it also.
He had happened upon one of those delightful
friendships without any suspicion of sex in them of which the American girl had the monopoly.
And yet he had written: "It is friendship when a man can say to himself, I love this man without respect of utility.
He wrote that as a young man, later he saw nothing in friendship beyond use.
Having now, as he thought, balanced this little account of
friendship, the captain was about to shift his saddle to this noble gift-horse when the affectionate patriarch plucked him by the sleeve, and introduced to him a whimpering, whining, leathern-skinned old squaw, that might have passed for an Egyptian mummy, without drying.