True friends, like ivy and the wall it props,
Both stand together, or together fall.

--_Anonymous_.

He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman
beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself.

--_Talleyrand_.

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How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the Good and
True: otherwise impossible; except as armed neutrality or hollow
commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for
himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and doing
what ten thousand singly would fail. Infinite is the help man can yield
to man!

--_Carlyle_.

He that hath gained a friend, hath given hostages to fortune.

--_Shakespeare_.

How often in thy journeyings hast thou made thee instant friends,
Found, to be loved a little while, and lost, to meet no more;
Friends of happy reminiscences, although so transient in their converse,
Liberal, cheerful, and sincere, a crowd of kindly traits.