Is true friendship as uncalculating as true love?
Does it make no reservations, and does it admit of no check from the reason ?" "I think, as I said, that friendship is a substitute for love, second best in its nature and second best, too, in its unselfishness." "Many people say love is selfishness itself." "I know," answered the Doctor, and paused as if thinking.
"Do you not want to smoke ?" asked Margaret, with a tinge of irony, "it may help you to solve the difficulty." "Thank you, no," said he, "the difficulty is solved, and it is no difficulty at all.

The people who say that do not know what they are talking about, for they have never been in love themselves.

Love, worth the name, is complete; and being complete, demands the whole, and is not satisfied with less than the whole any more than it is satisfied with giving less than all that it has.

The selfishness lies in demanding and insisting upon having everything, while only offering rags and shreds in return; and if one may find this fault in ordinary love affairs, one may find it tenfold in ordinary friendships.

Friendship may be heroic but love is godlike." Margaret had become interested in spite of herself, though she had preserved the constrained manner she had first assumed.