If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

More from Charlotte Brontë

• I think we have the kind of friendship were if I were the devil, you’d be the only one I would tell.
• A friend is a gift you give yourself.
• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
• A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, "Wish you were here."
• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
• A friendship that can end never really began.