Friendship
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another."
~George Santayana

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies." ~Menclus

"A friend is a gift you give yourself." ~Robert Stevenson

"What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies." ~Aristotle

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.  True friendship is a plant of slwo growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adverstiy before it is entitled to the appellation."
~George Washington

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you." ~Elbert Hubbard

"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality." ~Arnold Bennett

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

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us." ~Epicurus

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." ~C.S. Lewis

"In difficulty you understand your friends." ~Chinese Proverb

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
~David Tyson Gentry
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