Foolish I deem him who, thinking that his state is blest, rejoices in
security; for Fortune, like a man distempered in his senses, leaps now
this way, now that, and no man is always fortunate.--_Euripides._
They say Fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good
woman, and gives to those who merit.--_George Eliot._
If Fortune has fairly sat on a man, he takes it for granted that life
consists in being sat upon. But to be coddled on Fortune's knee, and
then have his ears boxed, that is aggravating.--_Charles Buxton._
~Fraud.~--The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and
the more greedily will it be swallowed; since folly will always find
faith wherever impostors will find impudence.--_Colton._
~Friendship.~--Friendship has steps which lead up to the throne of God,
though all spirits come to the Infinite; only Love is satiable, and like
Truth, admits of no three degrees of comparison; and a simple being
fills the heart.--_Richter._
Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful,
passing the love of women.--_Bible._
Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule
through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than
yourself.--_Douglas Jerrold._
Experience has taught me that the only friends we can call our own, who
can have no change, are those over whom the grave has closed; the seal
of death is the only seal of friendship.--_Byron._
What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor
among rogues.--_Thoreau._
So great a happiness do I esteem it to be loved, that I fancy every
blessing both from gods and men ready to descend spontaneously upon him
who is loved.--_Xenophon._
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a
distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.--_Thoreau._
The friendship between great men is rarely intimate or permanent. It is
a Boswell that most appreciates a Johnson. Genius has no brother, no
co-mate; the love it inspires is that of a pupil or a
son.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is
most strongly united by the fiercest flame.--_Colton._
Never contract a friendship with a man that is not better than
thyself.--_Confucius._
There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are
injurious. Friendship with the upright, friendship with the sincere, and
friendship with the man of much information,--these are advantageous.
Friendship with the man of specious airs, friendship with the
insinuatingly soft, friendship with the glib-tongued,--these are
injurious.--_Confucius._