“You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.”

“Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree”

“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”

“Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

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

“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.”

“Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.”

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

“A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.”