Quotes from Saint Alfred of Rievaulx

What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love.

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

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