A day for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend is life too short.
Considerations by the Way. R.W. EMERSON.
But sweeter none than voice of faithful friend;
Sweet always, sweetest heard in loudest storm.
Some I remember, and will ne'er forget.
Course of Time, Bk, V. R. POLLOK.
A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
One should our interests and our passions be,
My friend must hate the man that injures me.
Iliad, Bk. IX. HOMER. Trans. of POPE.
Nor hope to find
A friend, but what has found a friend in thee.
Night Thoughts. Night II. DR. E. YOUNG.
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven,
The noble mind's delight and pride,
To men and angels only given,
To all the lower world denied.
Friendship: An Ode. DR. S. JOHNSON.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar:
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Turn him, and see his threads: look if he be
Friend to himself, that would be friend to thee:
For that is first required, a man be his own;
But he that's too much that is friend to none.
Underwood. B. JONSON.
Lay this into your breast:
Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
Duchess of Malfy. J. WEBSTER.
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of
refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
Evangeline. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Cynthia's Revels. B. JONSON.