ANY kinds of fruit grow upon

the tree of life, but none so

sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.

-Lucy Larcom.

To contract ties of friendship with any one, is to contract friendship with his virtue; there ought not to be any other motive in friendship.

-Confucius.

M

ARK the difference between intimacy and friendship.

-Erwin E. Wood.

H

LWAYS leave my friend something more to desire of me. Be useful to my friend, as far as he permits, and no further.

Be much occupied with my own affairs, and little, very little, with those of my friend.

Leave my friend always at liberty to think and act for himself, especially in matters of little importance. -Gold Dust.

THERE

'HERE are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We can not force it any more than love.

-Hazlitt.

HINK of the importance of

friendship in the education of men. It will make a man honest; it will make him a hero; it will make him a saint. It is the state of the just dealing with the just, the magnanimous with the magnanimous, the sincere with the sincere, man with

man.

-Thoreau.

EOPLE

PEOPLE
LE who always receive you with

great cordiality rarely care for you. Your true friends make you a partaker of their humors.

A

-Manley H. Pike.

MAN's reputation is what his friends say about him. His character is what his enemies say about

him.

-Unknown.