Without friendship, society is but meeting.

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,

Bacon

Nicholas
Grimoald

What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?

The dear love of man for his comrade-the attraction of man for man.

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Oh! let us be happy when friends gather round us.
However the world may have shadowed our lot;
When the rose-braided links of affection have
bound us.

Let the cold chains of earth be despised and
forgot.

And say not that friendship is only ideal;

That truth and devotion are blessings unknown: For he who believes every heart is unreal,

Has something unsound at the core of his own. Oh! let us be happy when moments of pleasure Have brought to our presence the dearest and best;

For the pulse ever beats a most heavenly measure When love and good will sweep the strings of the breast.

To desire the same thing and to dislike the same thing, that alone makes firm friendship.

Walt
Whitman

Thomas

Jefferson

Eliza

Cook

Sallust

Bertha
Gaus

Plautus

Robert

"The Doctor"

The sense of sharing makes the blessedness of friendship; strength and invigoration spring from the contact of soul with soul. All beautiful, helpful, inspirational attributes of humanity flourish in the soil of friendship, exerting their beneficence, not only from friend to friend, but over all who may be reached by the expanding grace of goodness and the glad willingness of love. True friendship, therefore, carries with it an enlargement of the faculties and a more extensive life. It shows us the abundance of the world, and makes us feel that it is good.

All money's lost that goes

To an evil wife, or foes;
But on a faithful friend

You gain whate'er you spend.

It may safely be affirmed that generous Southey minds, when they have once known each other, never can be alienated as long as both retain the characteristics which brought them into union. No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Thomas
Moore

Cicero

A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.

It is like taking the sun out of the world to bereave human life of friendship.

A friend once won need never be lost, if we will be only trusty and true ourselves. Friends may part, not merely in body but in spirit for a while. In the bustle of business and accidents of life, they may lose sight of each other for years; and more, they may begin to differ in their success in life, in their opinions, in their habits, and there may be for a time coldness and estrangement between them, but not for ever if each will be trusty and true. For then they will be like two ships who set sail at morning from the same port, and ere night fall lose sight of each other, and go each on its own course and at its own pace for many days, through many storms and seas, and yet meet again, and find themselves lying side by side in the same haven when their long voyage is past.

True love is rare; true friendship, still

rarer.

But the best is the clasped hands of comrades when nightfall is near.

The best is the rest and the friendship, the calm of the soul,

When the stars are in the heaven and the runner lies down at the goal.

A friend is more necessary than either fire or water.

Charles
Kingsley

Jean
de la
Fontaine

Richard
Hovey

Taverner's Proverbs

A faithful friend is a thing most worth. A true friend is often better at need than a kingdom.

Friends given by God in mercy and in love;
My counsellors, my comforters and guides;
My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy;
Companions of my young desires, in doubt
My oracles; my wings in high pursuits.
Oh! I remember, and will ne'er forget
Our meeting spots, our chosen sacred hours;
Our burning words, that uttered all the soul,
Our faces beaming with unearthly love;
Sorrow with sorrow sighing, hope with hope
Exulting, heart embracing heart entire.

Comradeship is one of the finest facts, and one of the strongest forces in life.

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

Friendship, somehow, twines through all lives, and leaves no mode of being without its presence.

A friend's bosom

Is the inmost cave of our own mind,
Where we sit from the wide gaze of day
And from the all-communicating air.

Friendship is rarer than love, and more enduring.

How above all other possessions is the value of a friend in every department of life without any exception whatsoever!

O friendship, equal poised control,
O heart, with kindliest motion warm,
O sacred essence, other form,
O solemn ghost, O crownéd soul!

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed: there is no winter, and no night: all tragedies, all ennuis vanish; all duties even; nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.

He who is a friend, loves. He who loves is not always a friend. So friendship profits always; but love sometimes is hurtful.

Some liken their love to the beautiful rose,

And some to the violet; sweet in the shade; But the Flower Queen dies when the summer day

goes,

And the blue eye shuts when the spring blossoms fade!

So we'll choose for our emblem a sturdier thing,
We will go to the mountain and worship its
tree;

With a health to the Cedar-the Evergreen King-
Like that Evergreen so may our friendship be.

John D.

Rockefeller

Alfred Tennyson "In Memoriam"

Ralph
Waldo
Emerson

Seneca

Eliza

Cook

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