One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.