“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”

“Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended”

“I had fresh confirmation that acting contrary to present outward interest, from a motive of Divine love and in regard to truth and righteousness, and thereby incurring the resentments of people, opens the way to a treasure better than silver, and to a friendship exceeding the friendship of men.”

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”

“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”

“Friendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm”
Amicitia semper prodest, amor aliquando etiam nocet

“There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, ’twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.”

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”