II

THE STEPPING STONES

"T is thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends.

Be not jealous of thy friend's friendship for another; surely the more friends he hath, the better friend he is to have.

In many cases of friendship, or what passes for it, the old axiom is reversed, and like clings to unlike more than to like.

Make me to love my feller-man

Yea, though his bitterness

Doth bite as only adders can

Let me the fault confess,

And go to him and clasp his hand,

And love him none the less.
So keep me, Lord, forever free

From vane concete with him,

And he whose pius eyes can see
My faults, however dim,
Oh! let him pray the least fer me,
And me the most fer him.

I never yet cast a true affection on a woman; but I have loved my friend as I do virtue, my soul, my God. I love my friend. before myself, and yet methinks I do not love him enough: some few months hence my multiplied affection will make me believe I have not loved him at all. When I am from him, I am dead till I be with him; when I am with him I am not satisfied, but would be still nearer him.

John
Gay

Christopher Banniste

Dickens in "Martin Chuzzlewit."

James
Whit-

comb

Riley in

"Mortul

Prayer"

Sir
Thomas

Browne in "Religio Medici"

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Joanna
Baillie

John
Gay

Theodore

Munger

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thomas
May

Benjamin
Franklin

Harriet B. Stowe

Jane Austen

Caleb

Colton

Henry Wallace

Friendship is no plant of hasty growth;
Though planted in esteem's deep fixed soil,
The gradual culture of kind intercourse
Must bring it to perfection.

From springs!

wine what sudden friendship

wine

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separates you.

A calm, clear mind, not subject to the
spasms and crises which are so often met
with in creative or intensely perceptive
natures, is the best basis for love or friend-
ship.

Absence not long enough to root out quite
All love, increases love at second sight.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in
changing.

Friendships are discovered rather than

made.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for pangs of disappointed love.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never.

Seek no friend to make him useful, for that is the negation of friendship; but seek him that you may be useful, for this is of friendship's essence.

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THE STEPPING STONES

Turn him and see his threads, look if he be
Friend to himself, that would be friend to thee,
For that is first required, a man to be his own;
But he that 's too much that, is friend to none.

The chief friend and friend-maker is money.

If we first quarrel we shall eventually become sympathetic friends.

A good man is the best friend, and therefore soonest to be chosen, longest to be retained; and indeed never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was chosen.

These friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

When we live through love we begin friendship.

Friendship made in a moment is of no

moment.

Choose your companions wisely, and your friends will come about naturally.

Friendship springs from nature rather than from need.

Yet how often we know merely the sight of those we call our friends, or the sound of their voices, but nothing whatever of their mind or soul.