“My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.”
– Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“Your friend is your needs answered.”
– Kahil Gibran

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
– Kahil Gibran.

“Let your best be for your friend…”
– Kahil Gibran

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.”
– Kahil Gibran

“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”
– Homer (9th century B.C.)

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
– Samuel Johnson