What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends can be said to “fall in like” with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. – Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. – Honore de Balzac

It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com