Connection quotes, with sources

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

No man is an island, entire of itself.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Remembrance is a form of meeting.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

A disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak, and another to hear.

That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.

I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves but by love.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.

I am not born for any one corner of the universe; this whole world is my country.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else.

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Let us mutually pardon each other our follies.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume.

We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

If it were not for guests, all houses would be graves.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

The more that he gives to others, the more does he have himself.

Exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.

No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

My friends are my “estate.” Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

It is more disgraceful to distrust than to be deceived by our friends.

This life is the crossing of a sea, where we meet in the same narrow ship.

How noble is the sad heart who would sing a joyous song with joyous hearts.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

To praise good actions heartily is in some measure to take part in them.

The benevolent has no enemy!