The Golden Link of Friendship Part 9

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

_Henry Ward Beecher_

Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep by a word or a look his real sympathy.

_Emerson_

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence.

_Joseph Roux_

Friendship closes its eyes rather than see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

_J. C. and A. W. Hare_

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

_Henry D. Th.o.r.eau_

It is a proof of a man's fitness for friendship that he is able to do without that which is cheap and pa.s.sionate. A true friendship is as wise as it is tender.

_Henry D. Th.o.r.eau_

A foe to G.o.d was ne'er true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does.

_Young_

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

_Hazlitt_

Think not thy friend one who in fortune's hour Boasts of his friendship and fraternity.

Him I call friend who sums up all his power To aid thee in distress and misery.

_Saadi_

Constancy of Friendship

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

_Proverbs_ xvii. 17

Oh happy days, oh early friends, How Life since then hath lost its flowers!

But yet--tho' Time _some_ foliage rends, The stem, the Friendship, still is ours; And long may it endure, as green And fresh as it hath always been!

_Thomas Moore_

A true friend is for ever a friend.

_George MacDonald_

Your friend has never really loved you, never quite trusted you, who lightly lets himself think that you have drifted away from him.

_Bishop Thorold_

There are three faithful friends--an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

_Benjamin Franklin_

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne?

_Burns_

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold soone decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth and wasteth in the winde: But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde endureth weale or woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

_Roxburghe Ballads_

I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he must need me.

_Shakespeare_

The faults of our friends ought never to anger us so far as to give an advantage to our enemies.

_Lord Chesterfield_

Love is and was my Lord and King, And in his presence I attend To hear the tidings of my friend, Which every hour his couriers bring.

_Tennyson_

So Life's year begins and closes; Days, though short'ning, still can shine; What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

_Thomas Moore_