FRIENDS should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies, which increase vanity, destroy friendship.

-Channing.

FAVORS, and especially pecuniary ones, are generally fatal to friendship; for our pride will ever prompt us to lower the value of the gift by diminishing that of the donor. Ingratitude is an effort to recover our own esteem by getting rid of our esteem for our benefactor, whom we look upon as a sort of tooth-drawer, that has cured us of one pain by inflicting another. -Smith.

FRIENDSHIP throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and anxieties. -Cicero.

FRIENDSHIP hath the skill and observation of the best physician; the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse; and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

-Lord Clarendon.

FRIENDSHIP! the precious gold of life

By age refined, yet ever new; Tried in the crucible of time

It always rings of service true.

Friendship! the beauteous soul of life Which gladdens youth and strengthens

age;

May it our hearts and lives entwine Together on life's fleeting page. -Shaylor.

FRIENDSHIP is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the set

ting sun of life.

-La Fontaine.

FRIENDSHIP, love, and piety, ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken. of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence.

器

-Novalis.

FEW men are calculated for that close connection which we distinguish by the name of friendship, and we well know the difference between a friend and an acquaintance.

-Sterne.

FRIENDSHIP is the nearest thing we know to what religion is. God is love. And to make religion akin to friendship is simply to give it the highest expression conceivable by man.

-Drummond.

FRIENDSHIP is the great chain of

human society.

-Howell.

FRIENDSHIP is an allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counsellor of our doubts, the charity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we meditate.

-Taylor.

FRIENDSHIP springs up from sources so subtile and undefinable, that it cannot be forced into particular channels; and whenever the attempt has been made, has usually been unsuccessful.

-Day.

GOD wills that we have sorrows here,
And we will share it;
Whisper thy sorrow in my ear,
That I may also bear it.

If anywhere our trouble seems
To find an end,

"Tis in the fairy land of dreams,

Or with a friend.

-Tennyson.

FRIENDSHIP is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

-Penn.

FRIENDSHIP that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.

-Addison.

FRIENDSHIP, like love, is but a nane
Unless to one you stint the flame.
The child, whom many fathers share,
Hath seldom known a father's care.
'Tis thus in friendships; who depends
On many, rarely finds a friend.

-Gay.

FRIEND is a word of royal tone;
Friend is a poem all alone.

-From the Persian.