Aelred of Rievaulx quotes:

No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss....

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.