"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."- Jacques Delille
"A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."- George Washington
"Sir, I look upon everyday to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince."- Samuel Johnson
"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."- Euripides
"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."- Eleanor Roosevelt
"...no man is useless while he has a friend."- Robert Louis Stevenson
"A true friend stabs you in the front."- Oscar Wilde
"I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."- William Shakespeare
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."- Charles Caleb Colton
"Friends are the most important ingredient in the recipe of life."
"If all of my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them."