“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost”
– Charles Caleb Colton (1825)

“Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.”
– Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)

“Friends show their love in times of trouble…”
– Euripides (408 B.C.)

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
– Euripides (408 B.C.)

“A good friend is my nearest relation.”
– Thomas Fuller (1732)