John

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.”
― Abraham Kuyper

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle