A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good friends are good for your health.
Irwin Sarason

Money can't buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
Aaron Machado

A good friend can shield you from the storm.
Rhea Olsen

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.
Merry Browne

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph S. Bourne

Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, their friendship is as true as ever.
Deng Ming-Dao