Part 14

Friendship consists properly in mutual offices, and a generous strife in alternate acts of kindness.

--Robert South

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

--Shakespeare

Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene; Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.

--Young

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest to his feet.

--John Selden

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind.

--Seneca

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

--Bulwer-Lytton

Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition, or the lust of power and grandeur.

--Junius

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

--Colton

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant.

--Confucius

We must accept or refuse one another as we are. I could tame a hyena more easily than my Friend. He is a material which no tool of mine will work.

--Henry D. Thoreau

A true and noble friendship shrinks not at the greatest of trials.

--Jeremy Taylor

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

--The Earl of Clarendon

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all the world is agreed.

--Cicero

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.

--Goldsmith