"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
-- James Boswell
-- James Boswell
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
-- Charles Caleb Colton
-- Charles Caleb Colton
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire."
-- La Rochefoucauld
-- La Rochefoucauld
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. -- George Washington
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. -- Mahatma Gandhi
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino
-- Pietro Aretino
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell
-- Eustace Budgell
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
-- Samuel Johnson
-- Samuel Johnson
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-- Bernard Meltzer
-- Bernard Meltzer
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
-Sydney Smith
-Sydney Smith
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
-Sydney Smith
-Sydney Smith
