– “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
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” — André Gide