—Plautus.
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The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
—Hale.
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Truthfulness, frankness, disinterestedness, and faithfulness are the qualities absolutely essential to friendship, and these must be crowned by a sympathy that enters into all the joys, the sorrows and the interests of the friend; that delights in all his upward progress, and when he stumbles or falls, stretches out the helping hand, and is tender and patient even when it condemns.
—Ware.
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The expensiveness of friendship does not lie in what one does for one's friends, but in what, out of regard for them, one leaves undone.
—Ibsen.