It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.

It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

I don\'t stand for the black man\'s side, I don\' t stand for the white man\'s side. I stand for read more

I don\'t stand for the black man\'s side, I don\' t stand for the white man\'s side. I stand for God\'s side.

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools
Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
Wisdom and read more

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools
Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools
Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore.
This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules:
'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to
engross his sorrows, that, by making read more

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to
engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more
easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I
can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and
within the circle of another.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful
friend;
Gold some decayeth, and worldly read more

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful
friend;
Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in
the winde;
But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale
and woe;
The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the
same overthrowe.
- edited by John Payne Collier,