So long as we love, we serve. So long as we are loved by others I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
—Stevenson.
Two people who are friends make themselves responsible for each other. If I had a friend, and he went to the bad, and I met him in rags and poverty and disgrace, and if it ruined me to own him and help him, I should have to do it. If two men are really friends, nothing can come between them.
—Murray.
Some people keep a friend as children have a toy bank, into which they drop little coins now and again; and some day they draw out the whole of their savings at once.
—Unknown.