Qass_ Book- COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT 4 Ah, friendship, stronger in thy might Than time and space, as faith than sight I — " H. H." Picture from a Copley Prints copyright 1903, tof Curtis & Cameron, Publishers, Boston, 3= I m CATCHWORDS OF (I FRIENDSHIP A COLLECTION OF TWO HUNDRED SENTIMENTS IN VERSE AND PROSE CHICAGO A.CMCCaLURGfcr'CO. 19O8 m TT Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1908 Published September 26, 1908 I GOPY a. fi^< ^ y t%. R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO ^ Who knows the joys of friendship ? The trust, security, and mutual tenderness? The double joys, where each is glad for both ? Friendship ! Our only wealth, our last retreat and strength. Secure against ill fortune and the world ! — Rorve. I| A braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. — Shakespeare. CATCHWORDS OF FRIEND SHIP h ^ Friendship is love without wings.— Frenc/z Proverb. flf Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul ! — Blair. ^ Ah, friendship, stronger in thy might Than time and space, as faith than sight ! Rich festival with thy red wine My friend and I will keep, in courts divine. — Helen Hunt Jackson C'H. H''). [71 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ Better one true friend than a host of kinsfolk. — Italian Proverb. ^i Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. — Augustine Birrell. ^ Friendship's an abstract of love's noble flame, 'T is love refined, and purged from all its dross. The next to angel's love, if not the same ; As strong as passion is, though not so gross; It antedates a glad eternity. And is a Heaven in epitome. — Catherine Philips. fl[ The only way to have a friend is to be one.— Emerson. [8] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Only a wise man knows how to love; only a wise man is a friend. — Seneca. ^ No receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, sus- picions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it. — Bacon. ^ Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke up the unused path. — Scandinavian Edda. ^ ^ So long as we love we serve ; so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable ; and no man is useless while he has a friend. — Stevenson. ^ A lifelong friendship cast thou not aside! — Saadi. [9] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ * ^ We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship. — Schiller. L V in Great souls by instinct to each other turn. Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. — Addison. i"ff Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul. Follow thy friend beloved. But in the lonely hour. But in the evening walk. Think that he companies thy solitude. — Southey. n The best elixir is a friend. — William Somerville. [101 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend. — Proverb. ^ He who shall lend unto a friend May see both coin and friendship end. — Old Saving. ^ How much the oldest friend's the best! — Plautus. "" ^ Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it. — H. Cla}^ Trumbull. ^ Friends, like mushrooms, spring unexpected. — Prov- erb. ^ Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place. —Hillel. [Ill V CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did but what they intended. — Thoreau. ^ Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from fol- lowing after thee : for whither thou goest I will go ; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me. — Ruth to Naomi ^ A friend is Janus-faced; he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come. — Emerson. [12] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ You may not know my supreme happiness at having one on earth whom I can call friend. — Charles Lamb. ^ Conversation is the practice and consummation of friendship. — Emerson. ^ Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue. All things, in short, to which belong ' The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, — All these I prize but (enlre nous) Old friends are best. — Dobson. ^ Life has no joy like his who fights with Fate Shoulder to shoulder with a stricken friend. — Watts- Dunton. [13] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP M ^ Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few. — Bultper. ^ The making of friends who are real friends is the best token we have of a man's success in life. — Edxpard Everett Hale. ^ Convey thy love to thy friend, as an arrow to the mark, to stick there; not as a ball against the wall to rebound back to thee. — Quarles. ^ I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen ; that, when We climb to Heaven, 't is on the rounds Of love to men. — Whittier. [14] V CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP Cf Better a stranger made friendly than a friend made strange. — Scotch Proverb. ^ In the hour of distress and misery the eye of every mortal turns to friendship; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is your want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend. — Landor. €J David has his Jonathan, Christ his John. — HerherU ^ The years have taught some sweet, some bitter les- sons — none wiser than this: to spend in all things else, but of old friends to be most miserly. — LotvelL [15] •'3 V CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Lay this into your breast: Old friends, like old swords, are trusted best. — John Webster. ^ A seasoned friend ! not tainted with design ; Who made those words grow useless : mine and thine. — CartTpright ^ I do here entertain a friendship with thee. Shall drown the memory of all patterns past; We will oblige by turns and that so thick And fast, that curious studiers of it Shall not once dare to cast it up, or say By way of guess, whether thou or I Remain debtors when we come to die.— Suckling. [16] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Thou are the man in whom my soul delights, In whom, next Heaven, I trust. — Rotve. ^ A true friend is always useful ; but we should be- ware of thinking of our friends as brother members of a mutual benefit association, with its periodical demands and threats of suspension for non-payment of dues. — H. Cla^ Trumbull. ^ Friendship, like love, is but a name. Unless to one you stint the flame. — Ga^. €f I will take your friendship up at use. And fear not that your profit shall be small ; Your interest shall exceed your principal. — Toumeau. [17] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ To grow old with you, watching year by year In close companionship our brief term near Its end, to talk with you of times gone by. To enjoy old jests, o'er newer griefs to sigh Together, oh, my friend in boyhood dear. These are my consolation and my cheer; Still is earth green, and skies are ever clear That listen to my happy heart's fond cry To grow old with you! ^ And how old joys return and linger here In the retelling, how newer griefs appear As naught seen by your comprehending eye ! So, when fulfilment come, why, then shall I Smile at my granted wish — how should I fear? — To grow old with you. — Wallace Rice. [181 ^CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the coun- tencince of his friend — Proverbs of Solomon. ^ True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice. — Ben Jonson. ^ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend. — Gospel of John. ^ The name of friend is common, but faith in friend- ship is rare. — Phaedrus. ^ Let them be good that love me, though but few. — Ben Jonson. [19] i CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP M ^ O friend, my bosom said. Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red. All things through thee take noble form And look beyond the earth. And is the mill-round of our fate» A sun path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair. — Emerson. •I Not conquered he, but conquering still. Who yields himself to his friends* will. — Publius S^rus. [20] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ What shall I do, with ne'er a friend at hand For consolation, or to kill slow time? — Ovid. ^ Whilst wit remains, first preference is mine For that agreeability, a friend. — Horace. ^ Could friends be bought with money, how were money better spent? — Latin Proverb. ^ Friendship is not to be bought at a fair. — Proverb. '^f Comradeship is one of the finest facts and one of the strongest forces in life. — Hugh Black. i| Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. — Franklin. [211 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend, and of a flatterer. — Bacon. ^ True friendship is a plant of slow growth. — George Washington. ^ It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.^ — Ruskin. ^ A golden treasure is a tried friend. — Mirrour for Magistrates. [22] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ When adversities flow. Then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly In storms. Time dravs^eth w^rinkles in a fair Face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast Friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor mis*ry Can diminish. — Lill)). ^ Friendship is constant in all other things. Save in the oflice and affairs of love. — Shakespeare. ^ How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! — George Eliot. ^ The proper friend-making, everywhere friend-finding soul, fit for the sunshine. — Brorvning. \ [231 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ O Friendship, of all things Most rare, and therefore most rare. Because most excellent. — Lill^. ^ My companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend. — The Psalter. ^51 AH money *s lost that goes To an evil wife, or foes; But on a faithful friend You gain whate*er you spend. — Plautus. ^ Capacity for friendship is expensive, but those who have it would think shame to be without it, and would rather spend all than lack it. — Fenelon. [24] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Rainy days will surely come ; Take your friend's umbrella home. — Anonymous. ^ Blessed is the man who has the art of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. — Thomas Hughes. ^ Friendship that flows from the heart can not be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring can not congeal in winter. — Cooper. ^ Friends are like fiddlestrings ; they must not be screwed too tight. — Proverb. ^ Have the greatest blessing — a true friend. — Mas- singer. 125 1 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Life without a friend is death without a witness. — Swiss Proverb. ^ If we have no friends, we have no pleasure. — Lincoln. ^ He ought not to pretend to friendship's name Who reckons not himself and friend the same. — Take. ^ Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part. — Earl of Orrer}). ^ Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends.— Colj;per. [261 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP J^ ^ I had a friend that loved me ; I was his soul ; he lived not but in me. We were so close within each other's breast. The rivets were not found that joined us first. Both to ourselves were lost, for he was I, I he, — Dryden. ^ Love him, and keep him for thy friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last. — Thomas a Kempis. ^ Friend after friend departs ! Who hath not lost a friend? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end. — James Montgomery. [271 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP S ^ Friends grow not thick on every bough. — Young. ^ There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship: one is Truth, the other is Tenderness. — Emerson. ^ I count myself in nothing else so happy. As in a soul remem'bring my good friends. — Shakc" speare. ^ It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness. — Bacon. ^ Praise your friends, not yourself. — Ennius. [28] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ What do we live for if it is not to maice life less dif- ficult to each other? — George Eliot. ^ We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God. — Thackeray. ^ Friendship is the cement of two minds. As of one man the soul and body is. — Chapman. C| He is wise that can make a friend of a foe. — Scotch Proverb. ^ To owe an obligation to a worthy friend is a hap- piness. — De Charron. [29] '3 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP J ^ Asleep, awake, by night or day. The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray. Nor change the tide of destiny. The stars come nightly to the sky. The tidal wlive unto the sea ; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high. Can keep my own away from me. — John Burroughs. ^ He was my friend, faithful and just to me. — 5/ia^e- speare. ^ A friend may be often found and lost, but an old friend can never be found, and nature has provided that he can not easily be lost. — Dr. Johnson. [30] g CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^^ ^ ^ The ornament of a house is the friends that frequent it. — Emerson. ^ Whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship he taketh it of the beast and not from humanity. — Bacon. ^ Let us be friends, and treat each other like friends.— Lincoln. '^ ^ Friendship cannot stand all on one side. — Scotch Proverb. ^ To bear a friend's faults is to make them your ovm. — Publius S^rus. [31] i CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ A friend, so to speak, is a second self.— Cfcero. ^ Nothing is dearer to man than a serviceable friend. — Plautm. ^ With friends everything is held in common.— Cicero. ^ A faithful friend is the medicine of life.— £cc/e- siasticus. ^ That man may last, but never lives. Who much receives but nothing gives; Whom none can love, w^hom none can thank. Creation's blot, creation's blank. — Thomas Gibbons. [32] ^ CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ A firm friend is beyond price. — Tacitus. ^ If a man does not make new acquaintances as he ad- vances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. — Dr. Johnson. ^ Those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts. — Bacon. ^ A faithful friend is better than gold, — a medicine for misery, an only possession. — Burton. ^ Have no friends in your house that fly with the winter. — Latin Proverb. [331 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP M ^ A friend is a rare book, of which but one copy is made. — Anonymous. ^ Fast as the rolling seasons bring The hour of fate to those we love. Each pearl that leaves the broken string Is set in Friendship's crown above. As narrower grows the earthly chain. The circle widens in the sky. These are our treasures that remain. But those are stars that beam on high. — Holmes. ^ Friendship is more than cattle ; A friend in court aye better is Than penny is in purse certes. — Chaucer. [341 J/ CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ O summer-friendship. Whose flattering leaves, that shadowed us in our Prosperity, with the least gust drop off In the autumn of adversity. — Massinger. ^ Friendship, a dear balm, — Whose coming is as light and music are Mid dissonance and gloom; — a star Which moves not mid the moving heavens alone ; A smile among dark frowns; a beloved light; A solitude, a refuge, a delight. — Shelley. ^ Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other. — Dr. Johnson. [35] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Friendly counsel cuts off many foes. — Shakespeare. ^ Friendship can smooth the front of rude despair. — Cambridge. ^ Friendship is no plant of hasty growth. Though planted in esteem's deep-fixed soil. The gradual culture of kind intercourse Must bring it to perfection. — Joanna Baillie. ^ Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals. — Goldsmith. ^ Friends are not so easily made as kept. — Lord Halifax. [361 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP I spare no cost so long as I can serve my friend. — Latin Proverb. ^ Who talks of a common friendship? There is no such thing in the world. On earth no word is more sublime. — Drummond. ^ Scorn no man*s love, though of a mean degree : Love is a present for a mighty king. — Herbert. ^ It is at all times easier to make enemies than friends. — George Washington. ^ A faithful friend is the true image of God. — Na- poleon. [37] ■a CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ When men are friends, there is no need of justice; but when they are just, they still need friendship. — Aristotle. ^ No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of him till he's unhappy. — Scotch Proverb. ^ Oh, every sacred name in one: my friend! — Pope. ^ In companions That do converse and waste the time together. Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love. There needs must be a like proportion Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit. — Shake- speare. [38] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Kind friends, your loves Are registered where every day I turn The leaf to read them. — Shakespeare. ^ Better friends than relations. — Cicero. ^ Even the gods need friends. — Creek Proverb. ^ Some sing their songs of woman's love. Of war, and wine, and treasure trove ; May Heaven their ways amend! But one thing most of all the earth Will serve us best in grief or mirth, A talisman of priceless worth, A loyal friend. — Harold Boulion. [39] v/ CATCHWORDS OF FRffiNDSHIP ^ <9f He *s a man I know, that a reverent distance loves me ; And such are ever faithful. — Massinger. ^ As much as I can moderately spend : A little more sometimes to oblige a friend. — John Pom" fret. ^ Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not com- parable to him ; a new friend is as new wine, when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. — Ecclesiasticus. ^ Communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects ; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth grief in halves. — Bacon. [40] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ' ^ The only rose without thorns is friendship. — Mile. de Scuderu ^ Wheresoever you see your kindred, make much of your friends. — Proverb. ^ The fewer our old friends become, the more let us love one another. — FranliUn. ^ Friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempest ; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. — Bacon. ^ When friends meet, hearts warm. — Scotch Proverb. [41] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP J ^ It IS true, this golden friendship is not a common thing to be picked up in the street. It would not be worth much if it were. Like wisdom it must be sought for as for hid treasures, and to keep it demands care and thought. — Hugh Black* ^ Green be the turf above thee. Friend of my better days ; None knew thee but to love thee Nor named thee but to praise. — Fitz-Creene Hal" leek* ^ Two thoughts no man can well withstand: Of life no friendship can command; Of death without a woman's hand. — Wallace Rice. [42] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Choose him whose life and manner of speech please ^ you. — Seneca. ^ Face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend. — Exodus. Cf Grieve not at doing well to friends. But rather, if thou hast not, grieve. — Plautus. ^ We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan ; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. And that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing his friend, by what name do we call him? Here every human language holds its peace in impo- tence. — Joseph Roux. [431 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Yes ; we must ever be friends ; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest, and dearest ! — Longfello'W. ^ He that has no friend and no enemy is one of the vulgar, and without talents, power, or energy. — Lav-- ater. ^ A friendship formed in childhood, in youth, — by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood, — be- comes the genius that rules the rest of life. — Alcott. ^ A benevolent man should allow a few faults in him- self, to keep his friends in countenance. — Franl^lm. [44] g CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ J/ ^ My loved, my honored, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride I scorn each selfish end; My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise. — Burns. ^ The face of an old friend is like a ray of sunshine through dark and gloomy clouds. — Lincoln. ^ A generous friendship no cold medium knows. Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. — Pope. ^ Better to have a loving friend Than ten admiring foes. — George Macdonald. [45] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP S ^ Do not lose your friend for your jest. — Proverb. ^ I don't readily forget old friends. — LoivelL i| Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal man commend. What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? — Nicholas Crimbold. ^ Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not. — Proverbs of Solomon. ^ A friend should bear a friend's infirmities. — Shake- speare. ^ Friendship's the wine of Hfe. — Young. [46] Jf CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ We have been friends together. — Lad}) Caroline Norton. '^ In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any rela- tion of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possi- bilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship. — H. Cla]) Trumbull. ^ Better be friends afar than neighboring foes. — Italian Proverb. ^ A friend's frown is better than a fool's smile. — Proverb. [47] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^f The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried. Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. — Shake- speare. ^ Better new friend than an old foe. — Spenser. ^ Old friends are best. — Selden. ^ Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth and the sacred professions of friendship. — Longfelloiv. ^ A friend loveth at all times. — Proverbs of Solomon. V ^ The best mirror is an old friend. — Gaelic Proverb. [48] ^ CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Treat your friend as if he is to become your enemy. — Laberius. ^ Friendship must be something else than a society for mutual improvement — indeed, it must only be that by the way, and to some extent unconsciously, — 5/even- son. ^ True be thy sword, thy friend sincere! — Scott. ^ If you have a friend and you love him well. Let my advice on your friendship glimmer — Print all his faults in Nonpareil, But publish his virtues in big Long Primer. — Robert J. Burdette. [49] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP C St ^ Loss of a friend is the greatest of losses. — Publius S^rus. ^ Friends prove themselves in emergencies. — Ennius. ^ A man that hath friends must show himself friendly. — Proverbs of Solomon. ^ True friends find this when quarrels trouble : That friendship thereby doth redouble. — Plautus. '^ A friend is worth all hazards we can run. — Young. ^ Children know. Instinctive taught, the friend and foe. — Scott. [50] f^t^fyr^^-^ g CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ H ^ Keep well thy tongue, and keep thy friends. — Chaucer. €| A cheer, then, for the noble breast that fears not danger's post ; And, like the lifeboat, proves a friend when friends are wanted most. — Eliza Coolf. ^ When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow. — Swiss Proverb. ^ I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest thing we know. — Emerson. [511 CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP i ^ Faithful are the wounds of a friend. — Proverbs of Sol omon. ^ The dearest friend to me, the kindest man. The best-conditioned and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies. — Shakespeare. ^3f Friendship is the great chain of human society. — » James HoivelL ^ Friendship, of itself a holy tie. Is made more sacred by adversity. — Dr^den. ^ Friendship's like music; two strings tuned alike Will both stir, though only one you strike. — Quarles. [52] I CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ ^ Friendship's the privilege Of private men; for wretched greatness knows No blessing so substantial. — Tate. ^ Friendship always avails. — Laberius. ^ Bear your friend's infirmities : or betray your own. — Publius S^rus. f ^ A good friend is my next of kin. — Proverb. K ^ Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. — Gaelic Proverb. ^ Make use of every friend. — Pope. [53] fs/ CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP | C[ Should auld acquaintance be forgot. And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot. And days o' auld lang syne? — Bums. ^ Fate ordains that dearest friends must part. — Young. ^ Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more neces- sary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. — Holmes. [54] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP ^ He that is thy friend indeed He will help thee in thy need. — Richard Barnfield. '^ What is a friend? One who supports you and com- forts you, while others do not. — Bosivell. X ^ Fall not out with a friend for a trifle. — Proverb. S^f Go down the ladder when thou choosest a wife ; go up when you choose a friend. — Hebrew Proverb. ^ Do good to thy friend to keep him. — Franklin. ^ A judicious friend Is better than a zealous. — KnoTvles. [55] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP J Times change, opinions vary to their opposite, and still the world appears a brave gymnasium, full of sea bathing, and horse exercise, and bracing manly virtues, and what can be more encouraging than to find the friend who was welcome at one age, still welcome at another ? — Stevenson. ^ Good friendship makes good friends. — Proverb. ^ True friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal. — Plato. ^ It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means. — Kingsley. 156] CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP We can live without a brother, but not without a friend. — German Proverb. ^ ^ The language of friendship is not words, but mean- ings. It is an intelligence above language. — Henry D. Thoreau. If For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest. Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before. And one by one crept silently to rest. — Edward Fitz^^ Gerald. ^ God will not love thee less, because men love thee more. — Martin Farquhar Tapper. [57]. CATCHWORDS OF FRIENDSHIP j ^ If thou shouldst bid thy friend farewell. But for one night though that farewell may be. Press thou his hand in thine ; thou canst not tell How far from thee Fate or caprice may lead his feet Ere that to-morrow come. Men have been known Lightly to turn the corner of a street. And days have grown To months, and months to lagging years Before they looked on loving eyes again. Parting, at best, is underlaid with tears. With tears and pain. Therefore, lest death should come between. Or time, or distance, clasp with pressure true The palm of him who goeth forth ; unseen Fate goeth too ! — Mar^ E. M. Davis. ,^r ^ Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process. 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