It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

-George Eliot

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

-Sydney Smith

Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

-Thomas Fuller

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

-Charles Caleb Colton

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

-Henry Ward Beecher