Am I not destroying my enemies what I make friends of them?

—Abraham Lincoln

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. / Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. / Just walk beside me and be my friend.

—Albert Camus

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

—Swedish proverb

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

—Charlotte Bronte

In my friend, I find a second self.                             —Isabel Norton

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.

—A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.             —Walter Winchell

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!    —Doug Larson

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!             —Colette

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.         —Pearl S. Buck

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.       —Henry Brooks Adams

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

—Henry David Thoreau

No matter where we are we need those friends who trudge across from their neighborhoods to ours.        —Stephen Peters

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.          —Epicurus

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.     —Walt Whitman

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.             —James Howell

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.

— E.B. White (Charlotte, Charlotte’s Web)