Part 10

What ill-starr’d rage Divides a friendship long confirm’d by age?

--Pope

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

--Coleridge

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

--Emerson

Friendship is like rivers, and the strand of seas, and the air, common to all the world; but tyrants, and evil customs, wars, and want of love, have made them proper and peculiar.

--Jeremy Taylor

I hate where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

--Emerson

He who is a friend to everybody is nobody’s friend.

--Spanish Proverb

For tho’ the faults were thick as dust Vacant chambers, I could trust Your kindness.

--Tennyson

A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us, and delights in us, does for us what we want, is willing and fully engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases.

--Channing

Friendship is Love, without either flowers or veil.

--J. C. and A. W. Hare

We call friendship the love of the Dark Ages.

--Mme. de Stael

Pure friendship is what none can attain to the taste of save those who are well-born.

--La Bruyère

Friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

--Washington

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

--Montaigne

No word is oftener on the lips of man than Friendship, and indeed no thought is more familiar to their aspirations.

--Henry D. Thoreau