SINCE human affairs are frail and fleeting, some persons must ever be sought for whom we may love, and by whom we may be loved; for when affection and kind feeling are done away with, all cheerfulness likewise is banished from existence. -Cicero.

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LYING on lower levels is but a trivial offence compared with civility and compliments on the level of friendship.

MY friend, with you to live alone, X Were how much better than to own

A crown, a sceptre and a throne!

-Tennyson.

PURE friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never

taste.

-La Bruyère.

SWEET words will multiply a man's friends; and a fair-speaking tongue will multiply courtesies. Let those that are at peace with thee be many; but thy counsellors one of a thousand. If thou wouldest get thee a friend, get him by proving, and be not in haste to trust him. For there is a friend that is so for his own occasion, and he will not continue in the day of thy affliction. And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and he will discover strife to thy reproach. And there is a friend that is a companion at the table, and he will not continue in the day of thy affliction; and in thy prosperity he will be as thyself, and will be bold over thy servants; if thou shalt be brought low, he will be against thee, and he will hide himself from thy face.

-Bible.

THE first thing you should procure, after faith, is a good friend.

-Arabic.

SUCH a friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays at a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were extinguished than that we should be without friends.

-S. Chrysostom.

STRANGE as it may sound, we are sometimes rather disposed to choose our friends from the unworthy than the worthy; for though it is difficult to love those whom we do not esteem, it is a greater difficulty to love those whom we esteem much more than ourselves. A perfect friendship requires equality, even in vir

tue.

-Smith.

SINCERITY, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship. -Channing.

SOMEHOW or other, friendship entwines itself with the life of all men, nor does it suffer any mode of spending our life to be independent of itself.

-Cicero.

SMALL service is true service while it lasts,

Of humblest friends, bright creature, scorn not one;

The daisy by the shadow that it casts Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

-Wordsworth.

SOME friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.

-Taylor.

THEY who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of a friend. -Cicero.

TO act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

-Ellis.

THERE is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self; and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. -Bacon.

THE laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals. -Emerson.