ll I tell you why?
To find one good, you must a hundred try.

--_Claude Mermet._

681

Friends are sometimes like titled husbands, easy to get, if you have
enough money.

--_H. L. Meader._

682

Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold.

683

My treasures are my friends.

684

Without friends, no one would choose to live, even if he had all other
good things.

685

Old friends and old ways ought not to be disdained.

--_Danish._

686

FRIENDS--PAUCITY OF

Friends, but few on earth, and therefore dear.

--_Pollok._

687

The poor man's assets are his friends.

688

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will cease
to love.

--_Fuller._

689

RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN.

Baxter said:--"I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that
the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my
love to them while on earth. If I thought I should never know, and
consequently never love them after this life, I should number them with
temporal things, and love them as such; but I now delightfully converse
with my pious friends, in a firm persuasion that I shall converse with
them forever; and I take comfort in those that are dead or absent,
believing that I shall shortly meet them in heaven, and love them with a
heavenly love."

690

A gift kept back where it was hoped, often separateth chief friends.

691

Strange to say,--I am the only one of my friends I can rely upon.

--_Terence._

692

There is no living without friends.

--_Portuguese._

693

True friends anticipate each other's wants.

694

Friends are sometimes like mushrooms, they spring up in out-of-the-way
places.

695

At the gate of abundance there are many brothers and friends; at the
gate of misfortune there is neither brother nor friend.

696

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell a man of his
faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin
upon him, and to go to him alone and speak painful truths in touching,
tender words,--that is fri