Life and Literature Part 50

True friends antic.i.p.ate each other's wants.

694

Friends are sometimes like mushrooms, they spring up in out-of-the-way places.

695

At the gate of abundance there are many brothers and friends; at the gate of misfortune there is neither brother nor friend.

696

It is one of the severest tests of friends.h.i.+p to tell a man of his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin upon him, and to go to him alone and speak painful truths in touching, tender words,--that is friends.h.i.+p, and a friends.h.i.+p as rare as it is precious.

697

Henceforth there shall be no other contention betwixt you and me, than which shall outdo the other in point of friends.h.i.+p.

698

Cultivate your neighbor's friends.h.i.+p; he needs you and you need him.

699

Friends.h.i.+p often ends in love; But love, in friends.h.i.+p --Never.

700

Renewed friends.h.i.+ps require more care than those that have never been broken.

--_Rochefoucauld._

701

_Need for making Acquaintance._--If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friends.h.i.+p _in constant repair_.

--_Sam'l Johnson._

702

Suspicion kills friends.h.i.+p.

--_Hugh Black._

703

Who friends.h.i.+p with a knave hath made, Is judg'd a partner in the trade.

704

What need of years, long years, to prove The sense of friends.h.i.+p, or of love!

705

There is truly nothing purer and warmer than our first friends.h.i.+p, our first love.

--_Jean Paul Richter._

706

The permanency of most friends.h.i.+ps depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

707

Quickly made friends.h.i.+ps, are often eagerly and quickly ended.

708

FRIENDs.h.i.+P--RARITY OF.

Rare is true love: true friends.h.i.+p is still rarer.

--_Rochefoucauld._

709

Real friends.h.i.+p is like a sheltering tree.

710

He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.