—Cicero
The friendship that I have conceived will not be impaired by absence, but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.
—George Washington
True friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.
—Plato
Purchase not friends with gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
—Thomas Fuller
Everything is well, provided one reaches the end of the day, that one sups and that one sleeps. The rest is “vanity of vanities,” as says “the other.” But friendship is a veritable thing.
—Voltaire
Ah, how good it feels;
The hand of an old friend!
—Longfellow