Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates.

The cultivation of the friendship of a powerful man is sweet to the inexperienced; an experienced man dreads it.

Reserve or censure come not near
Our sacred friendship, lest there be
No solace left for thee and me.

In the choice of a dog or horse, we exercise the greatest care: we inquire into its pedigree, its training and character, and yet we too often leave the selection of our friends, which is of infinitely greater importance, by whom our whole life will be more or less influenced either for good or evil,-almost to chance.

Nothing in the world is more galling than a tardy friend.

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.

In certain circumstances in life we can bear no more from a friend than to feel him beside us. Spoken consolation irritates the wound and reveals its depth.

67

Oliver

Wendell
Holmes

Horace

Percy

Bysshe

Shelley

Lord Avebury in "The Pleasures of Life"

Plautus

Caleb
Colton

Honoré de Balzac

Edward
Verrall

Lucas

Lord Byron

William

Hazlitt

Knowles

Brown

Henry

David

Thoreau

Proverb

Lord

Avebury

Cicero

Petrarch

Proverb

La

Roche

foucauld

The art of life is to keep down acquaint-
One's friends one can manage, but

ances.

one's acquaintances can be the devil.

Who will debase his manly mind,
For friendship every fool may share?

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself; we cannot force it any more than love.

A judicious friend is better than a zealous

one.

True love never nags, it trusts.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language.

Poverty parteth friends.

Friendship does not confer any privilege to make ourselves disagreeable.

When love and kindness cease all enjoyment is taken out of life.

Suspicion is the bane of friendship.

Let not the grass grow on the path of friendship.

It is more shameful to mistrust your friends than to be deceived by them.

IV

ON BEING A FRIEND

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the place of their self-content;
There are souls like stars, that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;

There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths
Where highways never ran—

But let me live by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road

Where the race of men go by

The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.

I would not sit in the scorner's seat

Or hurl the cynic's ban

Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

I see from my house by the side of the road
By the side of the highway of life,

The men who press with the ardor of hope,

The men who are faint with the strife,

But I turn not away from their smiles nor their tears,

Both parts of an infinite plan

Let me live in my house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

I know there are brook-gladdened meadows ahead,
And mountains of wearisome height;

That the road passes on through the long after

noon

And stretches away to the night.

And still I rejoice when the travelers rejoice
And weep with the strangers that moan,
Nor live in my house by the side of the road
Like a man who dwells alone.

Samuel

Walter
Foss,

"The

House

by the Side of the Road"