To have a friend is to be happy.

• Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.
  
  
• To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy.
  
  
• True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
  
  
• When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
  
  
• Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
  
  
• The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
  
  
• A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
  
  
  
• "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
  - Charles Caleb Colton
  
  
• "Everyone is a friend, until they prove otherwise."
  - sent by Steve
  
• "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
  - Bible: Ecclesiastes
  
  
  
• "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
  -Benjamin Disraeli
  
  
  
• "Friendship is one mind in two bodies."
  - Mencius
  
  
• "Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
  Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
  But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
  Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
  - William Shakespeare
  
  
  
• "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
  - Mark Twain
  
  
  
• "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 friendship."
  - Cicero
  
  
• "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
  
  
• "I count myselt in nothing else so happy
  As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."
  - William Shakespeare
  
  
• "Friends have all things in common."
  - Plato
  
  
• "It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
  A happy and auspicious bird of calm..."
  - Shelly
  
  
  
• "The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters."
  - Thomas Jefferson
  
  
• "Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity."
  - Kahil Gibran
  
  
• "The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life."
  - Edward Everett Hale