"The most I can do for my friend
is simply be his friend."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"How often we find ourselves
turning our backs on our actual friends,
that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."
~ Henry David Thoreau
"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."
~ Henry Van Dyke
"Humility must always be the portion of any man
who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers
and the sacrifices of his friends."
~ Dwight David Eisenhower