August 19

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.—PROV. XVII, 17.

On the choice of friends

Our good or evil name depends.

GAY.

True happiness

Consists not in the multitude of friends,

But in the worth and choice. Nor would I have

Virtue a popular regard pursue:

Let them be good that love me, though but few.

BEN JONSON.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

MRS. ELLIS.

A good man is the best friend, and, therefore, soonest chosen, longer to be retained; and, indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he has been chosen.

JEREMY TAYLOR.

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.

BULWER-LYTTON.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

C. C. COLTON.

There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends.

Chinese Moral Maxims.

A favorite has no friend.

GRAY.