Virtue respects not blood and alliance. [ Proverb ]

Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. [ Addison ]

Vanity and pride sustain so close an alliance as to be often mistaken for each other. [ Gladstone ]

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. [ T. Jefferson ]

It is the habit of party in England to ask the alliance of a man of genius, but to follow the guidance of a man of character. [ Lord John Russell ]

Not in the achievement, but in the endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God. [ Chapin ]

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer. [ Whipple ]

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]