The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

-George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

-George Bernard Shaw

I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

-George Bernard Shaw

He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson