The Golden Link of Friendship Part 5

_Jeremy Taylor_

Friends.h.i.+p is to be purchased only by friends.h.i.+p. A man must have authority over others, but he can never have their heart but by giving his own.

_Thomas Wilson_

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

_Theophrastus_

Now can there be a worse disgrace than this--that I should be thought to value money more than the life of a friend?

_Plato_

Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pa.s.sed in music out of sight.

_Tennyson_

True friends.h.i.+p's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

_Homer_

Service of Friends.h.i.+p

The services which cement friends.h.i.+p are reciprocal services.

_William Smith_

Friends are to incite one another to G.o.d's works.

_William Ellery Channing_

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them.

_Emerson_

A princ.i.p.al fruit of friends.h.i.+p is the use and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which pa.s.sions of all kinds do cause and induce.

_Bacon_

Most of our friends.h.i.+ps lack the distinction of greatness, because we are not ready for little acts of service.

_Hugh Black_

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

_A. Bronson Alcott_

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: So doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

_Proverbs_ xxvii. 6, 9, 17

Friends.h.i.+p is a disinterested commerce between equals.

_Goldsmith_

To take the advice of some few friends is ever honourable; for lookers-on many times see more than gamesters, and the vale best discovereth the hill.

_Bacon_

Here around the ingle bleezing, Wha sae happy and sae free; Tho' the northern wind blaws freezing, Frien's.h.i.+p warms baith you and me.

_Burns_

Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

_A. Bronson Alcott_

Where you have friends you should not go to inns.

_George Eliot_

More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing G.o.d, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

_Tennyson_

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

_Thackeray_

I take of worthy men whate'er they give: Their heart I gladly take, if not, their hand; If that, too, is withheld, a courteous word, Or the civility of placid looks.

_Joanna Baillie_