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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.