Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. – Charles de Montesquieu

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. – Edgar Allan Poe