"Friendship is
a strong and habitual inclination
in two persons to promote
the good and happiness of one another."
-Eustace Budgell

"A faithful friend is a strong defense:
and he that hath found one
hath found a treasure."
-Bible

"Friendship is the only thing
in the world concerning the usefulness
of which all mankind are agreed."
-Marcus T. Cicero

"A friend is one who knows us,
but loves us anyway."
-Jerome Cummings

"Let me live in a house
by the side of the road
and be a friend to man."
-Sam Walter Foss

"Friendship is a horizon...
which expands whenever we approach it."
-E.R. Hazlip

"In the sweetness of friendship
let there be laughter,
and sharing of pleasures."
-Kahlil Gibran

"The glory of friendship is not
the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile,
nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual
inspiration that comes to one when you discover
that someone else believes in you and
is willing to trust you with a friendship."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Only solitary men know
the full joys of friendship.
Others have their family; but to a solitary
and an exile his friends are everything."
-Warren G. Harding

"There can be no friendship without confidence,
and no confidence without integrity."
-Samuel Johnson

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world
possibly not born until they arrive, and it
is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
-Anaïs Nin

"Love is blind,
but friendship closes its eyes."
-Unknown

"Remember,
no man is a failure who has friends."
-"It's a Wonderful Life"

"You have been my friend.
That in itself is a tremendous thing.
I wove my webs for you because I liked you.
After all, what's a life, anyway?
We're born, we live a little while, we die.
A spider's life can't help being something of a
mess, with all this trapping and eating flies.
By helping you, perhaps
I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven
knows anyone's life can stand a little of that."
-Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"
(by E. B. White)