ong rogues.--_Thoreau._

So great a happiness do I esteem it to be loved, that I fancy every
blessing both from gods and men ready to descend spontaneously upon him
who is loved.--_Xenophon._

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a
distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.--_Thoreau._

The friendship between great men is rarely intimate or permanent. It is
a Boswell that most appreciates a Johnson. Genius has no brother, no
co-mate; the love it inspires is that of a pupil or a
son.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is
most strongly united by the fiercest flame.--_Colton._

Never contract a friendship with a man that is not better than
thyself.--_Confucius._

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are
injurious. Friendship with the upright, friendship with the sincere, and
friendship with the man of much information,--these are advantageous.
Friendship with the man of specious airs, friendship with the
insinuatingly soft, friendship with the glib-tongued,--these are
injurious.--_Confucius._

Friendship survives death better than absence.--_J. Petit Senn._

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary
effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half: for there is
no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more;
and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the
less.--_Bacon._

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the
declining sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.--_Washington
Irving._

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past
forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close
intimacy of friendship. For grafts of _old_ wood to _take_, there must
be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.--_Whately._

An old friend is not always the person whom it is easiest to make a
confidant of.--_George Eliot._

~Fun.~--There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, and I
do like it in others. Oh, we need it,--we need all the counter-weights
we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made sunny
spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from
them?--_Haliburton._

~Futurity.~--The best preparation for the future is the present well seen
to, the last duty done.--_George MacDonald._

We always live prospe