Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.