WHATEVER is founded on mere carnal love, vanity or frivolity, on such attractions as are purely external, a sweet voice, personal beauty, superficial cleverness or outward show, is unworthy to be called friendship.

-De Sales.

YOU do surely bar the door upon your X own liberty, if you deny your griefs to your friend.

-Shakespeare.

WHEN a man cannot fitly play his own part, if he have not a friend he may quit the stage.

-Bacon.

We want one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to wear out life with; persons by whom we can measure ourselves, and who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue.

-Emerson.

A CROWD is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. In a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go farther and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude, to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness. Whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.

-Francis Bacon.

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AND thou, my friend, whose gentle love
Yet thrills my bosom's chords,
How much thy friendship was above
Description's power of words.

-Lord Byron.

AS friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among

the vicious.

-Horace Smith.

A FRIEND is worth all the hazards

we can run.

-Edward Young.

A TRUE friend is forever a friend.

-George MacDonald.

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A BENEVOLENT man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

-Benjamin Franklin.

A SLENDER acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

-Washington.

A FAITHFUL friend is better than gold-a medicine for misery, an only pos

session.

-Burton.

BLESSED are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one's self and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. -Hughes.

CULTIVATE the friendships of thy youth; it is only in that generous time they are formed.

-Thackeray.

COMPANIONS I have enough, friends few.

-Pope.

FRIENDSHIP is steady and peaceful; not much jealousy, and no heartburnings. It strengthens with time, and survives the smallpox and a wooden leg. It doubles our joys, divides our griefs, and warms our lives with a steady flame.

-Reade.

The noble mind's delight and pride,
To men and angels only given,
To all the lower world denied.

-Samuel Johnson.

FRIENDSHIP is a plant which cannot be forced. True friendship is no gourd, springing up in a night and withering in a day.

-Charlotte Brontë.

FRIENDSHIP always benefits, while

love sometimes injures.

-Seneca.