te the burthen, and is a sure resort against
every accident and difficulty that can happen.

715

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known
until it is lost.

--_Colton._

716

Those who speak always and those who never speak, are equally unfit for
friendship.

717

He who never gives advice, and he who never takes it are alike unworthy
of friendship.

718

He who is worthy of friendship at all will remember in his prosperity
those who were his friends in his adversity.

719

Value the friendship of him who stands by you in a storm; swarms of
insects will surround you in the sunshine.

720

No matter how poor and mean a man is, his friendship is worth more than
his hate.

721

Good fruit never comes from a bad tree.

--_Portuguese._

722

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like
it in others.

--_Haliburton._

723

_Groping for the Door._--O door, so close, yet so far off!

--_Miss Mulock._

724

If you would have your name chime melodiously in the ears of future
days, cultivate faith, and not doubt, giving unto every man credit for
the good he does, and never attribute base motives to beautiful acts.

--_Unknown._

725

_Future_:--The future does not come from before to meet us, but comes
streaming up from behind over our heads.

--_Rahel._

726

_Future--to be met without Fear_:--Look not mournfully into the
past,--it comes not back again; wisely improve the present,--it is
thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear, and with a
manly heart.

--_Longfellow._

G

727

One thing obtained with difficulty is far better than a hundred things
procured with ease.

--_The Talmud._

728

Gain, has oft, with treacherous hopes led men to ruin.

--_Sophocles._

729

Either hand must wash the other;
If you take, then you must give.

730

Gain has a pleasant odor.

731

Prefer loss before unjust gain; for that brings grief but once; this