Part 10 (1/2)

”Let all be forgotten between us-- All save the dear old friends.h.i.+p, and that shall grow older and dearer.

_Longfellow_

Lack of Friends

It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness.

_Bacon_

Ill-starred, indeed, is he who injures men: Is fortune adverse, he is friendless then.

_Saadi_

Those that want friends are cannibals of their own hearts.

Communicating a man's self to his friends redoubleth his joys and cutteth griefs in halves. A friend is another _himself_. If a man have not a friend, he may quit the world's stage!

_Bacon_

A favourite has no friend.

_Gray_

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and cowardly can never know what true friends.h.i.+p means.

_Charles Kingsley_

We walk alone in the world. Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, souls are now acting, enduring, and daring, which can love us and which we can love.

_Emerson_

Loss of Friends.h.i.+p

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is th.o.r.n.y; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

_Coleridge_

Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friends.h.i.+p.

_William Ellery Channing_

Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friends.h.i.+p distant.