Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge.

- Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

Friendship is Love without his wings!

- Byron

I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.

- Shakespeare, Richard II

Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.

- Yeats

The bird a nest
The spider a web
The human friendship.

- William Blake

What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.

- Aristotle

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson