Part 11

Life should be fortified by many friendships.

--Smith.

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Love begins with love; and there is no passing from firm friendship to even feeble love.

--La Bruyere.

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Live not without a friend; the Alpine rock must own Its mossy grace or else be nothing but a stone.

--Story.

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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

--Emerson.

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Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold, Brow may wrinkle, hair grows grey: True friendship never knows decay.

--Anon.

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Oh, the comfort--the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person--having neither to weigh thought nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

--Muloch.

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O matchless wisdom; those seem to take the sun out of the world who remove friendship from the pleasures of life: than which we have received nothing better or more pleasant from the gods.

--Cicero.

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Not on the store of sprightly wine, Nor plenty of delicious meats, Though generous Nature did design To court us with perpetual treats; 'Tis not on these we for content depend, So much as on the shadow of a friend.

--Menander.

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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.