1 Women, like princes, find few real friends. LORD LYTTLETON-Advice to a Lady. St. 2. 2 Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try. CLAUDE MERMET-Epigram on Friends. 3 As we sail through life towards death, D. M. MULOCK-Thirty Years. A Christmas 4 We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. CAROLINE E. S. NORTON-We Have Been Friends. 5 Cætera fortunæ, non mea, turba fuit. The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. OVID-Tristium. I. 5. 34. 6 Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. Idea found in PLAUTUS-Stich. IV. 1. 16. OVID-Ep. ex Ponto. II. 3. 23. OVID Trist. I. 9. 5. ENNIUS-Cic. Amicit. Ch. XVII. METASTASTIO Olimpiade. III. 3. HERDER-Denksprüche. CALDERON-Secret in Words. Act III. Sc. 3. MENANDER -Ex Incest. Comoed. P. 272. ARISTOTLE Ethics VIII. 4. EURIPIDES-Hecuba. L. 1226. 7 For all are friends in heaven, all faithful friends; 8 Friends given by God in mercy and in love; POLLOK-Course of Time. Bk. V. L. 315. 9 Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear, (A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear.) POPE-Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford. 10 Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend-and ev'ry foe. POPE-Essay on Criticism. L. 214. 11 Ah, friend! to dazzle let the vain design; To raise the thought and touch the heart be thine. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 248. 12 A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Proverbs. XVIII. 24. |