Part 7

Dear is my friend--but from my foe, as from My friend, comes good; the first what I can do Shows, and the second what I should.

--Schiller

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

--Jean Paul Richter

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

--C. N. Bovee

One must shed his blood to serve his friends and to avenge himself upon his enemies; otherwise he is not worthy of the name of man.

--Voltaire

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result.

--Henry D. Thoreau

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

--Addison

Mutual comprehension makes for friendship, and militates against love; for love--like modern society papers--must have a “puzzle column” for those that take it in.

--Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

Whatever the number of a man’s friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few.

--Bulwer-Lytton

The friendship of a great man is a gift of the gods.

--Voltaire

Ah! were I sever’d from thy side, Where were thy friend, and who my guide? Years have not seen, Time shall not see The hour that tears my soul from thee.

--Byron

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

--C. N. Bovee

I have friends in Spirit land,-- Not shadows in a shadowy band, Not others but themselves are they; And still I think of them the same As when the Master’s summons came.

--Whittier

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

--Sydney Smith

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o’ auld lang syne?

--Burns