"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."

"Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor, busy men can usually command."

"A day for toil, an hour for sport, But for a friend is life too short."

"To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life."

"So, if I live or die to serve my friend, 'Tis for my love —' tis for my friend alone, And not for any rate that friendship bears In heaven or on earth."

"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up."

"Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

"The fallying out of faithful frends is the reunyng of love."

"Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

"The poor make no new friends; But oh, they love the better still The few our Father sends."

"Be kind to my remains; and O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend."

"For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity."

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."

"What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?"

"Wal'r, my boy," replied the captain; "in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words: 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of."

"Les amis—ces parents que l'on se fait soi-même."

"Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow."

"As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port—heaven,— Friend, what years could us divide?"

"The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it."

"Soyons amis, Cinna, c'est moi qui t'en convie."

"Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can."

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

"Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit."

"Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores."

"You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends."

"Amicus est tanquam alter idem."

"Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend."

"Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends."

"Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt: Where amity is ty'd with band of truth, All benefits are there in common set."

"Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend."

"'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been."

"In friendship I early was taught to believe; * * * * * * I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive."

"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

"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."

"His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither— They had been fou for weeks thegither!"

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, Though they return with scars."

"Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon."

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne?"

"We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine."

"Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life."

"Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own—my own true friend; Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!"

"Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society."

"Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures; Little howe'er it seems, It is yours, all yours."

"It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him."

"The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break."

"Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn."