'It is not so much our friends help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us' Epicurus 'Life without a friend is like death without a witness' Spanish Proverb 'The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away' Mizner 'The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring fourth its affections to a few esteemed characters' T. Jefferson 'One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of laughter' Sagan 'Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity' Gilman 'There is no hope in joy except in human relations Exupery 'The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a mans success in life' Hale 'The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right' Twain 'Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them' Holmes 'Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love' -Unknown 'The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? Thoreau 'Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter' -Unknown