The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.--James Russell Lowell

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.--Aristotle 

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.--Ed Cunningham 

Friends, books, a cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.--William Mather 

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil--but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often--just to save it from drying out completely.--Pam Brown 

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.--Swedish proverb 

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.--George Washington 

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."-—C. S. Lewis 

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.--Samuel Butler 

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.--John Evelyn 

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.--Woodrow Wilson 

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 

Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.--Barbara Tuchman 

Friendships multiply joys and divide grief.--Thomas Fuller