Henry David Thoreau Quotes

A true friend is a sort of second self.

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

A friend is a second self.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies-neighbors are kind enough for that-but to do the like office to our spirits.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

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