Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. – John Leonard

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. – Emil Ludwig

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. – Laurence J. Peter

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. – Oscar Wilde

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. – C. S. Lewis

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. – Katherine Mansfield

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. – Epicurus

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch