"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth." ― Herman Melville Topic(s): Friendship More From Herman Melville "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope." "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living." More In Friendship "Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."― Virginia Woolf "Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."― Anton Chekhov "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."― Ella Wheeler Wilcox