Part 56

Friendship

AUGUST 8

"Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend."

EMERSON.

"The end of friendship is for aid and comfort through all the passages of life and death."

EMERSON.

"Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy. A friend shares my sorrow, and makes it but a moiety; but he swells my joy, and makes it double."

JEREMY TAYLOR.

"He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need. If thou sorrow, he will weep. If thou wake, he cannot sleep. Thus in every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part."

SHAKESPEARE.

Friendship

AUGUST 9

"To begin with, how can life be worth living, to use the words of Ennius, which lacks that repose which is to be found in the mutual good-will of a friend? What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself? Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy? On the other hand, misfortunes would be hard to bear if there were not some one to feel them even more acutely than yourself."

CICERO.

"Comradeship is one of the finest facts, and one of the strongest forces in life."

HUGH BLACK.

"... All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity."

CICERO.

Friendship

August 10

"Beware lest thy friend learn to tolerate one frailty of thine, and so an obstacle be raised to the progress of thy love."

THOREAU.

"That he had 'a genius for friendship' goes without saying, for he was rich in the humility, the patience and the powers of trust, which such a genius implies. Yet his love had, too, the rarer and more strenuous temper which requires 'the common aspiration,' is jealous for a friend's growth, and has the nerve to criticise. It is the measure of what he felt friendship to be, that he has defined religion in the terms of it."

Of Henry Drummond, GEORGE ADAM SMITH.

"All men have their frailties, and whoever looks for a friend without imperfection will never find what he seeks. We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner."

CYRUS.

Friendship

AUGUST 11