* * * * *

The years have taught some sweet, some bitter lessons--
none wiser than this:
To spend in all things else, but of one's friends to be most miserly.

--_James Russell Lowell_.

The best mirror is an old friend.

--_Tennyson_.

True friendships are eternal.

--_Cicero_.

That two men may be real friends, they must have opposite opinions,
similar principles, and different loves and hatreds.

--_Chateaubriand_.

There are very few friends with whom one can be intimate on all
subjects. Discover the range of your intimacy with each friend and
never go beyond it.

--_J. A. Spender_.

* * * * *