“Happy is the house that shelters a friend!”

“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”

Gaston Bachelard book The Poetics of Space

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

“When men were scattered over the earth, protected by eaves or by the dug-out shelter of a cliff or by the trunk of a hollow tree, it was philosophy that taught them to build houses.”

Posidonius (-135–-51 BC) ancient greek philosopher

“No. No no no no. It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

“Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?”

John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law

“The happy man in this life needs friends.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church