“Friendship is...the sort of love one canimagine between angels.....”

“People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.”

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

“There is no friendship possible between men and women[...]. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

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

“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”