Part 8

No man has been able to discover how to give a friendly counsel to any woman, not even to his wife.

--Balzac

In friendships, some are worthy, and some are necessary.

--Jeremy Taylor

You do not know how great is the value of friendship, if you do not understand how much you give to him to whom you give a friend.

--Seneca

Faint heart never won true Friend. O my Friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my Friend I may be yours.

--Henry D. Thoreau

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

--La Fontaine

Ceremony was but devis’d at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere ’tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

--Shakespeare

Friends are companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

--Pythagoras

Have friends: It is the second existence. Every friend is good and wise for his friend, and among them all gets well managed.

--Balthasar Gracian

When our friends are present, we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

--Epictetus

To Friendship every burden’s light.

--John Gay

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends, And many friendships in the days of Time Begun, are lasting here, and growing still.

--Robert Pollok

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

--Henry D. Thoreau

Friendship is immeasurably better than kindness.

--Cicero

The friendship that I have conceived will not be impaired by absence, but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

--George Washington