The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

A  friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate frieThus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

Cicero, (106 BC –  43 BC) A Roman statesman, lawyer, political theorist, philosopher, and Roman constitutionalist.

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,  (1854 – 1900) An Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel.