Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn’t matter. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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

Dont flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. – Oliver Wendell Holmes