Baxter said:--"I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that
the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my
love to them while on earth. If I thought I should never know, and
consequently never love them after this life, I should number them with
temporal things, and love them as such; but I now delightfully converse
with my pious friends, in a firm persuasion that I shall converse with
them forever; and I take comfort in those that are dead or absent,
believing that I shall shortly meet them in heaven, and love them with a
heavenly love."
690
A gift kept back where it was hoped, often separateth chief friends.
691
Strange to say,--I am the only one of my friends I can rely upon.
--_Terence._
692
There is no living without friends.
--_Portuguese._
693
True friends anticipate each other's wants.
694
Friends are sometimes like mushrooms, they spring up in out-of-the-way
places.
695
At the gate of abundance there are many brothers and friends; at the
gate of misfortune there is neither brother nor friend.
696
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell a man of his
faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see the stain of sin
upon him, and to go to him alone and speak painful truths in touching,
tender words,--that is friendship, and a friendship as rare as it is
precious.
697
Henceforth there shall be no other contention betwixt you and me, than
which shall outdo the other in point of friendship.
698
Cultivate your neighbor's friendship; he needs you and you need him.
699
Friendship often ends in love;
But love, in friendship
--Never.
700
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been
broken.
--_Rochefoucauld._
701
_Need for making Acquaintance._--If a man does not make new
acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself
left alone. A man should keep his friendship _in constant repair_.
--_Sam'l Johnson._
702
Suspicion kills friendship.
--_Hugh Black._
703
Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
704
What need of years, long years, to prove
The sense of friendship, or of love!
705
There is truly nothing purer and warmer than our first friendship, our
first love.
--_Jean Paul Richter._
706
The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good
fortune.
707
Quickly made friendships, are often eagerly and quickly ended.
708