"True friendship consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and value."

Ben Jonson

"It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity."

Cicero

"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."

Bertrand Russell

"Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever."

Deng Ming Dao

"There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living."

Don Marquis