I would be friends with you and have your love.
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem:
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.
Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find.
I am not of that feather to shake off
My friend when he must need me.</poem>
For by these
Shall I try friends: you shall perceive how you
Mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my friends.
To hear him speak, and sweetly smile
You were in Paradise the while.
For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.
For whoever knows how to return a kindness
he has received must be a friend above all price.
'Tis something to be willing to commend;
But my best praise is, that I am your friend.
It's an owercome sooth fo' age an' youth,
And it brooks wi' nae denial,
That the dearest friends are the auldest friends,
And the young are just on trial.
Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum.
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
Amicum lsedere ne joco quidem licet.
A friend must not be injured, even in jest.
Secrete amicos admone, lauda palam.
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
A good man is the best friend, and therefore
soonest to be chosen, longer to be retained; and
indeed, never to be parted with, unless he cease
to be that for which he was chosen.
| author = Jeremy Taylor
| work = A Discourse of the Nature, Measures, and Offices of Friendship.
| topic = Friends
| page = 300
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 15
| text = Choose for your friend him that is wise and
good, and secret and just, ingenious and honest,
and in those things which have a latitude, use
your own liberty.
Jeremy Taylor—Discourse of the Nature,
Measures, and Offices of Friendship.
When I choose my friend, I will not stay till I
have received a kindness; but I will choose such
a one that can do me many if I need them; but
I mean such kindnesses which make me wiser,
and which make me better.
Jeremy Taylor—Discourse of the Nature,
Measures, and Offices of Friendship.
Then came your new friend: you began to change—
I saw it and grieved.
Ego meorum solus sum meus.
Of my friends I am the only one I have left.
Fidus Achates.
Faithful Achates (companion of iEneas).
Vergil—JEneid. VI. 158.
God save me from my friends, I can protect
myself from my enemies.
Attributed to Marshal de Villars on taking
leave of Louis XIV.
A slender acquaintance with the world must
convince every man, that actions, not words,
are the true criterion of the attachment of friends ;
and that the most liberal professions of good-will
are very far from being the surest marks of it.
I have friends in Spirit Land,—
Not shadows in a shadowy band,
Not others but themselves are they,
And still I t.hinlr of them the same
As when the Master's summons came.
Whittier—Lucy Hooper.
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt,
you hate.
Wycherlet—The Plain Dealer. Prologue.
And friend received with thumps upon the back.
Young—Love of Fame. Satire I.
| seealso = (See also Cowper)
| topic = Friends
| page = 300
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 571.
A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man,
Some sinister intent taints all he does.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night Vm. L. 704.
