HO can afford to go through life without especial friends on whom he may bestow especial care and love? When old age comes, that man is poor indeed-in heartcompared with what he might have been, if he has loved no life-long friend. Select your friends without regard to what they may perform for you. That is not friendship which forever seeks itself; but that which gives itself for others. And having given once my love to any man, I never will recall it. Hearts that once were warmed and welded may not be safely severed. When the whirlwind of disaster comes and sweeps his worldly goods away, I still will be his friend. When the brand and blaze of scandal come and ruin reputation, I will remain his friend; and if he meet disaster worse than these, his fair fame ruined, his good soul soiled by sin, I still will be-and all the more-his friend! If in that moment of his moral overthrow I prove that I am not a friend indeed, what can I say if he do never rise again, when nothing less than love had power, perchance, to rescue him? -Perry Marshall. RIENDS-Old friends One sees how it ends. A woman looks Or a man tells lies, And the pleasant brooks And the quiet skies As they did before; With friends. ONLY -W. E. Henley. NLY he who is unwilling to love without being loved, is likely to feel that there is no such thing as friendship in the world. WHEN -H. C. Trumbull. 7HEN friendship goes with love it must play second fiddle. -German Proverb. IFE hath no blessing like an earnest friend; than treasured wealth more precious, than the power of monarchs, and the people's loud applause. -Euripides. A COMMON friendship-Who talks of a common friendship? is no such thing in the world. earth no word is more sublime. There On -Henry Drummond. ONE NE can not be a friend without having one. -A. S. Hardy. |