Mere C.S. Lewis

It could be argued that Friendships are of practical value to the Community. Every civilised religion began in a small group of friends.   ...

... we think we have chosen our peers. In reality, a few years’ difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain hous...

Even if the common ground of the Friendship is nothing more momentous than stamp-collecting, the circle rightly and inevitably ignores the v...

The mark of perfect Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes...

That is why those pathetic people who simply “want friends” can never make any. The very condition of having Friends is that we should want ...

Something is going on at this moment in dozens of ward-rooms, bar-rooms, common-rooms, messes and golf-clubs. I prefer to call it Companions...

Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, abs...

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern wo...

C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (1960; Harcourt Brace: 1991) 58.