This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary
effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in half: for there is
no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more;
and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the
less.--_Bacon._
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the
declining sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.--_Washington
Irving._
It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past
forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close
intimacy of friendship. For grafts of _old_ wood to _take_, there must
be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.--_Whately._
An old friend is not always the person whom it is easiest to make a
confidant of.--_George Eliot._
~Fun.~--There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, and I
do like it in others. Oh, we need it,--we need all the counter-weights
we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made sunny
spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from
them?--_Haliburton._
~Futurity.~--The best preparation for the future is the present well seen
to, the last duty done.--_George MacDonald._
We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is no
abiding moment.--_Jacobi._
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise
than a threat.--_J. Petit Senn._
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this
corporeal clod.--_Milton._