"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end." ― Francis Quarles Topic(s): Friendship More From Francis Quarles "Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor." "Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice." "Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury." More In Friendship "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."― Charlotte Bronte "In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life."― Ernst Mayr "It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."― Epicurus