Part 21

Fate, which has ordained that there shall be no friendship among the evil, has also ordained that there shall ever be friendship among the good.

--Plato.

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False friendship turns to evil desires, upbraidings, slander, deceit, sorrow, confusion and jealousies; but pure friendship is always the same, modest, courteous and loving, knowing no change save an increasingly pure and perfect union.

--De Sales.

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Friendship is love with understanding. --Proverb.

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Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

--Dumas.

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Friendship is said to be a plant of tedious growth, its roots composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

--Vanbrough.

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Friendship springs from nature rather than from need.

--Cicero.

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Friendship, a dear balm-- Whose coming is as light and music are 'Mid dissonance and gloom:--a star Which moves not 'mid the moving heavens alone; A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight.

--P. B. Shelley.

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Friendship is the greatest bond in the world.

--Jeremy Taylor.

Friendship is love without wings.

--Byron.

For as yellow gold is tried by fire, so do moments of adversity prove the strength of friendship. While fortune is friendly and smiles with serene countenance, crowds surround the rich; but when heaven's thunder rolls, they vanish, nor has he one who knows him, though lately encircled by troops of boon companions.

--Ovid.

Our best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

--C. C. Colton.