For Auld Lang Syne | Page 7

friendships which are advantageous, and three which
are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere;
and friendship with the man of observation: these are advantageous.

Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the
insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are
injurious.
--Confucius.

The tree withereth
Which stands in the courtyard
Without shelter of
bark or of leaf.
So is a man
Destitute of friends.
Why should he
live on?
--The Hava-mal.

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and
indeed, friendship itself is but a part of virtue.
--Pope.

The mind never unbends itself so agreeably as in the conversation of a
well-chosen friend. There is indeed no blessing of life that is any way
comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend. It eases
and unloads the mind, clears and improves the understanding,
engenders thoughts and knowledge, animates virtue and good
resolutions, soothes and allays the passions, and finds employment for
most of the vacant hours of life.
--Addison.

The best way to represent to life the manifold use of friendship is to
cast and see how many things there are which a man cannot do himself;
and then it will appear that it was a sparing speech of the ancients to
say "that a friend is another himself."

--Bacon.

The conversation of a friend brightens the eyes.
--Persian Proverb.

Those who want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their
own hearts. But one thing is most admirable, which is, that this
communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth grief in halfs. For there is no man that
imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man
that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
--Bacon.

There is no better medicine for grief than the advice of a good and
honored friend. He who, in his sufferings, excites and tries to soothe his
mind by wine, though he may have pleasure for a moment, has a
double portion of pain afterwards.
--Euripides.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast
friend.
--Lyle.

The good man has the same relation to his friend as he has to himself.
--Aristotle.

There is in friendship something of all relations and something above
them all. It is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all the world.
--Evelyn.

To God be humble, and to thy friend be kind.
--Dunbar.

The perfection of loving-kindness is to efface ourselves so thoroughly
that those we benefit shall not think themselves inferior to him who
benefits them.
--Balzac.

The purest and most lasting human friendships are permeated with an
element of reverence.
--Phelps.

There are gold-bright suns in worlds above,
And blazing gems in
worlds below,
Our world has Love and only Love,
For living
warmth and jewel glow;
God's love is sunlight to the good,
And
Woman's pure as diamond sheen,
And Friendships's mystic
brotherhood
In twilight beauty lies between.
--Milne.

The friendship which arises from contraries is horrible and coarse, and

has often no tie of communion; but that which arises from likeness is
gentle, and has a tie of communion, which lasts through life.
--Plato.

To live with one's enemies as if they might one day be our friends, and
to live with our friends as though they might one day become our
enemies, is neither natural to hatred nor consistent with friendship.
Such a maxim is not moral, but politic.
--La Bruyere.

To take the companionship of life from life, what else is it than to take
away the means of absent friends conversing together?
--Cicero.

The love of friendship is the most perfect form of loving.
--Cardinal Manning.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, Let there be truth
between us two forevermore. It is sublime to feel and say of another, I
need never meet, or speak, or write to him; we need not reinforce
ourselves or send tokens of remembrance, I rely on him as on myself; if
he did thus or thus I know it was right.
--Emerson.

True friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal.

--Plato.

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the
heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts.
--Disraeli.

Think it not friendship which ever seeks itself, but that which gives
itself for others.
--Marshall.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidences.
--Roux.

When Socrates was building himself a house at Athens, being asked by
one that observed the littleness of the design why a man so eminent
would not have