"The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship."
William Blake
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
Katherine Mansfield
"Friendship is the bread of the heart."
Mary Russell Mitford
"The ornaments of our house are the friends who frequent it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
Edward W. Howe
"A real friend helps us think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, be our finest selves."
Anonymous
“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”
Anonymous
"My friends are my estate."
Emily Dickinson
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, the greatest is the possession of friendship."
Epicurus
"A single rose can be my garden ... a single friend, my world."
Leo Buscaglia
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
Virginia Woolf
"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
Saint Thomas Aquinas
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust
"Your wealth is where your friends are."
Platus
"Friends are a second existence."
Baltasar Gracian
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
Thomas A. Edison
"Relationships create the fabric of our lives. They are the fibers that weave all things together."
Eden Froust
"Friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes."
Baltasar Gracian
"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
Cicero
"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart."
Elizabeth Foley