what they said

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." Euripides, Greek playwrite

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." Oscar Wilde