I awoke this morning with a devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the

new.

Friendship is the great chain of human society.

The scampering squirrel, when the Autumn's gift
Of opening chestnuts and sweet mast descends,
Bestows them in the keep the poplar lends
Against the wind that sets the snows adrift;
And the lithe branches to the sunlight lift
Their length unburdened now, each bough un-
bends

And raises hands on high, till Heaven sends
Their prayer its answer in the season's shift.

Even so my heart stores safe the tender smile,
The kindly word, the gentle deed, of those
Who are my friends against Time's drifting
snows;

And still the tendrils of that heart reach
forth

And point me to the dear ones lost awhile

Within the Spring beyond the frozen North.

Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship.

You may not know my supreme happiness at having one on earth whom I can callfriend.

The love of friendship is the most perfect form of love.

Emerson

James
Howell

Wallace
Rice on
"The
Heart's

Treas

ure"

Lucy

Larcom

Charles

Lamb

Cardinal
Manning

Seneca

Eliza
Cook

Count

von

Platen

Walt Whit-1 man in "Leaves of Grass"

Cicero

Martin Tupper

Joseph Addison

Of all felicities the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship.

Ardent in its earliest tie,
Faithful in its latest sigh,

Love and Friendship, godlike pair,
Find their throne of glory there.

Love is deemed the tenderest of our affections, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.

I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions,

But really I am neither for nor against institutions,
(What indeed have I in common with them? or
what with the destruction of them?)

Only I will establish in Mannahatta and in every
city of these States, inland and seaboard,
And in the fields and woods, and above every
keel little or large that dents the water,
Without edifices or rules or trustees or any argu-
ment,

The institution of the dear love of comrades.

Because nature cannot be changed, true friendships are eternal.

God will not love thee less because men love thee more.

There is indeed no blessing of life that is in any way comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend.

How delightful to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for the length of absence to which we owe our delight.

Friendship is a crystal lake, sheltered from ruffling winds, wherein he who looks may see his better nature.

A happy bit hame this auld world would be,

If men, when they're here, could make shift to agree,

An' ilk said to his neighbor, in cottage an' ha', "Come gi'e me your hand, we are brethren a'."

Philosophers smile contemptuously at the fondness of people for a crowd, and for their slavish reciprocal dependence upon each other to amuse and entertain them, as well as to guide them in their thoughts, opinions, or actions. Yet the basis of this tendency is in the love of our fellow-men; and it is the corner stone of the human side of Christianity.

And though a coat may a button lack,
And though a face be sooty and black,
And though the words be heavy of flow,
And the new-called thoughts come tardy and
slow,

And though rough words in a speech may blend,
A heart's a heart, and a friend's a friend.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.

Walter

Savage
Landor

Christo

pher Bannister

Robert

Nicoll

Paul Siegvolk in "Ru

mina

tions"

Will Carleton in "Farm Festivals"

Author
Unknown

Jerome K. Jerome

Robert

Browning

Charles Dickens

John Holden

Young

John D. Rockefeller

There are evergreen men and women in the world, praise be to God!-not many of them, but a few. The sun of our prosperity makes the green of their friendship no brighter, the frost of our adversity kills not the leaves of their affection.

Eye lights eye in good friendship, great hearts expand

And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?

To make this earth a heaven, bring Heaven to earth,

Our human nature needeth not new birth;

For what man lacks a friend? If we should pray
That hatred cease, that love's serenest ray
Light up the world, and comprehension bring
Its perfect sympathy for wandering

And errant souls, ask we not that God sends
That we and all mankind shall live as friends?

Friendship is the wine of life.

How many different kinds of friends there are! They should be held close at any cost; for, although some are better than others perhaps, a friend of whatever kind is important; and this one learns as one grows older.