* A friend is a present you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson

* We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Epicurus

* Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian (1647)

* Friendship needs no words...
Dag Hammarskjold

* Friends are the sunshine of life."
John Hay (1871)

* A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Readers Digest

* The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert

* To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust (1st century B.C.)

* In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
Kahil Gibran

* Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Peguy

* Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
George Eliot

* What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane

* There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
William Penn

* Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain

* A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Fr. Jerome Cummings