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

“Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.”

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

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

“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”

“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”

“If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, and how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people.”

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

“That individual who reads useful books is no longer on the same plane of thinking as those who neglected them.”