such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
--COWPER.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.--PLAUTUS.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.--PROVERBS 27:10.

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.--VAUGHAN.

There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere
enough to tell him disagreeable truths.--LYTTON.

A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful;
for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.
--ADDISON.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that
actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of
friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very
far from being the surest marks of it.--GEORGE WASHINGTON.

No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend.--BEAUMONT AND
FLETCHER.

The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,--cold
friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies,
warm friends.--LAVATER.

Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will
cease to love.--FULLER.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend
worth dying for.--HENRY HOME.

Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted
upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.--CHESTERFIELD.

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of
friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them
therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for
gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy
inferiors.--SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

'Tis thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends.
--GAY.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends;
this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
--DR. JOHNSON.

An act, by which we make one friend and one enemy, is a losing game;
because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude.--COLTON.

That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an end.
--QUARLES.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in continue firm
and constant.--SOCRATES.

We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are willing to pay
the price, a self-sacrificing love.--PELOUBET.

False friends are like our