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 friendship 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 friendship, and a friendship 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 friendship.

698

Cultivate your neighbor's friendship; he needs you and you need him.

699

Friendship often ends in love; But love, in friendship --Never.

700

Renewed friendships 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 friendship _in constant repair_.

--_Sam'l Johnson._

702

Suspicion kills friendship.

--_Hugh Black._

703

Who friendship 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 friendship, or of love!

705

There is truly nothing purer and warmer than our first friendship, our first love.

--_Jean Paul Richter._

706

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

707

Quickly made friendships, are often eagerly and quickly ended.

708

FRIENDSHIP--RARITY OF.

Rare is true love: true friendship is still rarer.

--_Rochefoucauld._

709

Real friendship is like a sheltering tree.

710

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