“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

“It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.”

“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”

“Art is most simply and most usually defined as an attempt to create pleasing forms. Such forms satisfy our sense of beauty and the sense of beauty is satisfied when we are able to appreciate a unity or harmony of formal relations among our sense-perceptions.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love… I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.”