- “What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – Saint Jerome
- “I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.” – William Shakespeare
- “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.” – John Donne
- “Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.” – John Boyle O’Reilly
- “Friends have all things in common.” – Plato
- “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Artistotle
- “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
- “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Unknown
- “No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” – George Eliot
- “It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm…” – Shelly
- “The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” – Wilson Mizner
- “The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.” – Francoise Sagan
- “Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.” – Kahil Gibran
- “There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.” – Bejamin Disraeli
- “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” – Walt Whitman
- “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne
- “When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.” – Anatole Broyard
- “Friends are born, not made.” – Henry Adams
- “This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.” – Francis Bacon
- “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.” – Tehyi Hsieh
- “There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” – Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
- “The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.” – Edward Everett Hale
- “Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.” – James Fenimore Cooper
- “Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” – James Francis Byrnes
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