FRIENDSHIP

"Friendship," said Uncle Eben, "don't mean no mo' to some folk dan a license to borrow money."

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals.—Goldsmith.

So long as we love we serve;

So long as we are loved by others

I would almost say that we are indispensable;

And no man is useless while he has a friend.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.—Cicero.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;

Grieve, and they turn and go,

They want full measure of all your pleasure,

But they do not need your woe.

Be glad, and your friends are many;

Be sad, and you lose them all,—

There are none to decline your nectar'd wine,

But alone you must drink life's gall.

—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.