Part 3

--Child.

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Be admonished not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be.

--Emerson.

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, But for a friend life is too short.

--Emerson.

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After a certain age a new friend is a wonder. There is the age of blossoms and sweet budding green, the age of generous summer, the autumn when the leaves drop, and then winter shivering and bare.

--Thackeray.

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Bitter and unrelenting enemies often deserve better of us than those friends whom we are inclined to regard as pleasant companions; the former often tell us the truth, the latter never.

--Cicero.

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Does friendship really go on to be more pain than pleasure? I doubt it, for even in its deepest sorrows there is a joy which makes ordinary pleasure a very poor, meaningless affair.

--Unknown.

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Friendship does not spring up and grow great and become perfect all at once, but requires time and the nourishment of thoughts.

--Dante.

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Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for friendship, for friends do not live in harmony, merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for friends to feed and clothe our bodies,--neighbors are kind enough for that,--but to do the like office to our spirits. For this, few are rich enough, however well disposed they may be.

--Thoreau.

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A pure friendship inspires, cleanses, expands, and strengthens the soul.

--Alger.

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A friend is he that loves, and he that is beloved.

--Hobbe.