"But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine"
~ Thomas Jefferson.
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
~ Alexandre Dumas the Younger.
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
~ Pietro Aretino (1537).