True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
- Charles Caleb Colton

I asked God for a flower, he gave me a garden. Asked for a friend, he gave me you.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

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

My friends are my estate.
- Emily Dickinson