Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
687
AUTHOR:
Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
QUOTATION:
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
ATTRIBUTION:
President THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Maria Cosway, October 12, 1786.The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 10, pp. 44950 (1954).