Part 13

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

--Taylor.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

--Emerson.

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To he only an admirer is not to be a friend of a human being. Human nature wants something more, and our perceptions are diseased when we dress up a human being in the attributes of divinity. He is our friend who loves more than admires us, and would aid us in our great work.

--Channing.

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True, active, productive friendship consists in keeping equal pace in life, in the approval of my aims by my friend, while I approve his, and thus moving forward together steadily, however much our way of thought and life may vary.

--Goethe.

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The man, that comforts a desponding friend With words alone, does nothing. He's a friend Indeed, who proves himself a friend in need.

--Plautus.

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The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

--Hale.

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