"I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment." ~ Frances Farmer
In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschen bach
It is wise to apply the refined oil of politeness to the mechanism of friendship. ~ Colette
Friends are lights in winters; the older the friend, the brighter the light. ~ Roger Rosenblatt
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there? ~ Richard Bach
You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, and how, how rare and strange it is, to find in a life composed so much of odds and ends... to find a friend who has these qualities, who has, and gives those qualities upon which friendship lives. ~ T. S. Eliot
I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~ Edith Wharton
You can always tell a real friend: When you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~ Laurence Peter, Chicago Sun Times
A faithful friend is beyond price,/And his value cannot be weighted./A faithful friend is a life-giving medicine. ~ The Apocrypha
Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff. ~ May Sarton
Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul. ~ Baltasar Gracián
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fail. ~ Donna Roberts
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision but today's friendship makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of love. ~ Chinua Achebe