From the heart of a friend

by Unknown

Let our old acquaintance be renewed.

—Shakespeare.

Here is a dear, a true industrious friend.

—Shakespeare.

The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about friends. They mean associates and confidents merely. Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions or advances will avail.

—Thoreau.