“Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new
(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 582.
“Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. ”
“From wine what sudden friendship springs!”
VI, "The Squire and His Cur"
Fables (1727), Fables, Part the Second (1738)
“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 7
Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-20) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”
As quoted in The Man from Monticello : An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson (1969) by Thomas J. Fleming, p. 250
Posthumous publications
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. IX, Beggars.
Context: We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.
“Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.”
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
