Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

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I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses — Ann Landers

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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

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