—Phillips Brooks

Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.

—A. Bronson Alcott

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east-winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.

—Emerson

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly.

—The Book of Proverbs

Friendship is the marriage of the soul.

—Voltaire

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest and some by souls.