NOTHING is more common than the name of friend; nothing is more rare than true friendship.

-Phædrus.

O, FRIENDSHIP! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity.

Goldsmith.

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OF all felicities the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all our extremities. -Seneca.

OLD friends are the greatest blessings of one's later years.

-Horace Walpole.

Of all the best things upon earth,

I hold that a faithful friend is the best.

-Owen Meredith.

REPROVE your friends in secret, praise them openly.

-Publius Syrus.

TRUE friendship purifies and exalts.
A friend may be a second conscience.
-J. Stalker,

THE greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

-Hugo.

THE fewer our friends become, the more let us love one another.

THE years have taught some sweet, some bitter lessons-none wiser than this:

To spend in all things else, but of one's friends to be most miserly.

-James Russell Lowell.

THE best mirror is an old friend.

-Tennyson.

✰ TRUE friendships are eternal.

-Cicero.

THAT two men may be real friends, they must have opposite opinions, similar

principles,

hatreds.

and different loves

and

-Chateaubriand.

THERE are very few friends with whom one can be intimate on all subjects. Discover the range of your intimacy with each friend and never go beyond it.

-J. A. Spender.

TWO persons will not be friends long if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

-La Bruyère.

THERE is this important difference between love and friendship: while the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equalities.

-Mme. de Maintenon.

THERE is no folly equal to that of throwing away friendship, in a world where friendship is so rare.

-Bulwer-Lytton.

THE very ground and gist of a noble friendship is the cultivation in common of the personal inner lives of those who partake in it, their mutual reflection of souls and joint sharing of experience inciting them to a constant betterment of their being and their happiness.

THINK of the importance of friendship in the education of men. It will make a man honest; it will make him a hero; it will make him a saint. It is the state of the just dealing with the just, the magnanimous with the magnanimous, the sincere with the sincere, man with

man.

-Thoreau.

THERE are two elements that go to the composition of friendship-truth and tenderness.

-Emerson.

THERE are a thousand nameless ties, Which only such as feel them know; Of kindred thoughts, deep sympathies, And untold fancy spells, which throw O'er ardent minds and faithful hearts

A chain whose charmèd links so blend, That the light circlet but imparts

Its force in these fond words, My friend.

-Mrs. Dinnies.