“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”

“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

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

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

“True friendship implies full confidence, which may only be completely given or completely withdrawn. If friendship has continually to be analyzed, nursed, and cured, it will cause more anguish than love itself, without having love's strength and its remedies. And if this confidence is ill-placed? Well - I would rather be betrayed by a false friend than deceive a true one.”

“There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.”

“And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.”

“If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.”