Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

“While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance…”

“Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it …”

“The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to o…”

“The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be …”