Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.-John Chrysostom (345?-407)

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), 1819 - 1880

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.-- Jennie Jerome Churchill, 1854 - 1921

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834