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Come back, before I am grown into a very old man, so as you shall hardly know me.

To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.

It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.

There are probably as many different dialects for the heart as for the tongue, are there not?

There is only one event in my life which never loses its bitterness; which comes back on me like a retreating wave, going and coming again, which was and is my grief--I never had but one brother who loved and comprehended me.

When I saw them embracing each other, and heard their joyous laughter, I turned sadly away from the lovely sight.

Tell all my friends in Concord that I do not send my love, but retain it still.

Methinks, if I loved him more, I should keep him--I should keep myself rather--at a more respectful distance.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

Now friendship may be thus defined: a complete accord on all subjects human and divine, joined with mutual goodwill and affection.

it is in regard to friendship, as in so many other things, so supple and sensitive that it expands, so to speak, at a friend's good fortune, contracts at his misfortunes

Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.

We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another

Whereas in friendship, 'tis a general and universal fire, but temperate and equal, a constant established heat, all gentle and smooth, without poignancy or roughness.

intimacy is the full enjoyment of friendship, and most pleasant is companying with and spending the day with a friend

If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Love should run out to meet love with open arms.

Marriage is terrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.