“Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.”

“Friendship was just diplomacy by other means, after all.”

“An epoch can only be reproduced by its own artists, I mean by the artists who lived in it. I hold the artists of one century basically incapable of reproducing the aspect of a past or future century-in other words, of painting the past or the future.”

“Animal training may give one the means to make a living; liberal education gives living a meaning.”

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.”

“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.”

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

“Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.”

“Their friendship was at an end, it seemed to him. The evil time when he had lived on Ravelston had spoiled everything. Charity kills friendship.”

“A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.”