Part 23

--Pope.

I could not live without the love of my friends.

--John Keats.

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It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

--Euripides.

If you would know how rare a thing a true friend is, let me tell you that to be a true friend a man must be perfectly honest.

--Henry W. Shaw.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

--Charlotte Bronte.

In friendship even thought meets thought ere from the lips it part, and each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.

--Pope.

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I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, But never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness; Some more, and some less; but, truly, all can claim a little: And a man may travel through the world, and sow it thick with friendships.

--Tupper.

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Love is the greatest of human affections, and friendship the noblest and most refined improvement of love.

--South.

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Love is flower-like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

--S. T. Coleridge.

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Seek no friend to make him useful, for that is the negation of friendship; but seek him that you may be useful, for this is of friendship's essence.

--Wallace.

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Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. Many people seem to trust in this matter to the chapter of accidents. It is well and right, indeed, to be courteous and considerate to every one with whom one is thrown in contact, but to choose them as real friends is another matter.... If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.

--Avebury.

Not only does friendship introduce daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts; it maketh a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests; in consultation with a friend a man tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.