Part 15

--Euripides.

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Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.

--Lyle.

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The good man has the same relation to his friend as he has to himself.

--Aristotle.

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There is in friendship something of all relations and something above them all. It is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all the world.

--Evelyn.

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To God be humble, and to thy friend be kind.

--Dunbar.

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The perfection of loving-kindness is to efface ourselves so thoroughly that those we benefit shall not think themselves inferior to him who benefits them.

--Balzac.

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The purest and most lasting human friendships are permeated with an element of reverence.

--Phelps.

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There are gold-bright suns in worlds above, And blazing gems in worlds below, Our world has Love and only Love, For living warmth and jewel glow; God's love is sunlight to the good, And Woman's pure as diamond sheen, And Friendships's mystic brotherhood In twilight beauty lies between.

--Milne.

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The friendship which arises from contraries is horrible and coarse, and has often no tie of communion; but that which arises from likeness is gentle, and has a tie of communion, which lasts through life.

--Plato.

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To live with one's enemies as if they might one day be our friends, and to live with our friends as though they might one day become our enemies, is neither natural to hatred nor consistent with friendship. Such a maxim is not moral, but politic.

--La Bruyere.