Part 3 (1/2)

Friends.h.i.+p is the ideal, friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

_Joseph Roux_

They seem to take away the sun from the world who withdraw friends.h.i.+p from life.

_Cicero_

You're my friend-- What a thing friends.h.i.+p is, world without end!

How it gives the heart and soul a stir up!

_Robert Browning_

Friends.h.i.+p is Love without his wings!

_Byron_

I do not wish to treat friends.h.i.+ps daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not gla.s.s threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.

_Emerson_

Nothing makes the earth seem so s.p.a.cious as to have friends at a distance; they make the lat.i.tudes and longitudes.

_Henry D. Th.o.r.eau_

O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!

O, drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again!

No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own.

Responds,--as if with unseen wings, An angel touched its quivering strings; And whispers, in its song, Where hast thou stayed so long?

_Longfellow_

Friends.h.i.+p is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

_Augustine Birrell_

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow.

_Fenelon_