On Friendship

   A good friend is one's nearest relation.




   A man that hath friends must show himself friendly. 




   There is no better looking-glass than an old friend.




   Promises may get friends, but 'tis performances that keep them.




   You will never have a friend if you must have one without 
      fault. 




   Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.




   Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.




   Every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.




   A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.




   True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in 
      adversity they come without invitation.




   A friend that you buy with presents will be bought from you.




   Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not.

                                                   Bible



   A hedge between keeps friendship green.




   To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, to spend a little 
      less, to renounce whatever shall be necessary and not be 
      embittered, to make a family happier for his presence, to 
      keep a few friends and these without capitulation, and above 
      all, to keep friends with one's self --- here is a task for 
      all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. 

                                            Robert Louis Stevenson





   Friendship is the wine of life; but friendship new is neither 
      strong nor pure.
                                                       Edward Young


   
   
   Common friendship standeth on equalities, and cannot stand a 
      debt.




   He that ceaseth to be friend never was a good one.




   The rich hath many friends.
                                 Bible


   
   
   Absence strengtheneth friendships, where the last 
     recollections were friendly.




   Make no friendship with a man given to anger.


   
   
   Friendship made in a moment is of no moment.




   Wealth addeth many friends.
                                  Bible




   An envious man, if you succeed,
   May prove a dangerous foe indeed,
   But not a friend worth keeping.




   False friends are worse than open enemies.




   Choose your friends with care, that you may have choice 
      friends.




   A faithful friend loves to the end.




   He is a weak friend who cannot bear with his friend's weakness.




   A friend is easier lost than found.