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friendships

«Friendships are discovered rather than made.»
«Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.»
«Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.»
«In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.»
«Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.»
«Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.»
«If we were all given by magic power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships»
«Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.»
«A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.»
«A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds -- or tries to add -- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.»

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