when he said to me before his death: For enmity comes not to an end by enmity; by non-enmity enmity comes to an end.' Then king Brahmadatta of Benares reflected: 'Wonderful! Astonishing! What a clever youth is this Long Life that he can expound in such detail the meaning of what his father has so briefly said.' And he gave him all that had belonged to his father, army and baggage, and land, and treasure, and store, and gave him his daughter to wife."*

From Buddha, by Dr. H. Oldenberg, translated from German by William Hoey.

58. FRIENDSHIP.

Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweetner of life! and soldier of society!

-ROBERT BLAIR.

Friendship often originates in companionship between men who for some time have indulged their Tastes, and prosecuted their pleasures in company. It is perfectly obvious how the idea of such men will occur to one another, not simply as the idea of man, but so enveloped by the trains of pleasurable ideas associated with the man, that the idea of him is upon the whole a highly pleasurable idea. When to this is added, the expectation of future pleasures, not merely the continuation of the companionship, but services of importance; when the wisdom of the man promises light and guidance from his counsels; when his fidelity makes it safe to trust him; when his benevolence towards us makes us count upon his services, whenever they are required, and his reputation and influence in the world are such as to give weight to his endeavours, there is a sufficient accumulation of pleasurable ideas with that of the individual to account for the affection denominated Friendship.

-JAMES MILL.

Friends-those relations that one makes for one's self.

It is chance that gives us relations, but we give friends to ourselves.

Those who in close society are join'd,
In manners equal, you will ever find.

Wherever there is reciprocity, there is no complaint.

-PERSIAN PROVERB.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.*

A true friend is like a second self.

A friend is another himself, for a friend is more than

Two friends will in a needle's eye repose,

But the whole world is narrow for two foes.
-R. C. TRENCH.

'Tis thus that on the choice of friends,

Our good or evil name depends.

-GAY.

Purity, liberality, heroism, participation in joy and sorrow, rectitude, attachment and truthfulness are the qualities of a friend.

"HITOPADESHA."†

True happiness

Consists not in the multitude of friends,

But in their worth and choice.

-BEN JOHNSON.

* From Gracian's Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from the Spanish by J. Jacobs.

† Prof. Johnson's edition.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it

is seldom known until it be lost.

COLTON.

The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it

For it so falls out,

That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost
Why then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.

-SHAKESPEARE.

Procure not friends in haste, nor hastily part with them, when procured.

Deliberate on all things with thy friend:

But since friends grow not thick on every bough,
Nor every friend unrotten at the core,
First, on thy friend, deliberate with thyself;
Pause, ponder, sift, not eager in the choice;
Judge before friendship, then confide till death;
A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

-YOUNG.

Who seeks a friend without a fault, remains without

one.

-TURKISH PROVERB.

Make no friendship with an angry man, and with

a furious man thou shalt not go.

-SOLOMON.

One should not form a friendship or even acquaintance with one of evil character. Charcoal if hot, burns : if cold, blackens the hand.

-"HITOPADESHA.”*

Friendship with a fool is the embrace of a bear.
-AFGHAN PROVERB.

A foolish friend does more harm than a wise enemy.

All matches, friendships and societies are dangerously inconvenient, where the contractors are not equal.

A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. This communicating of a man's self to his friend redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halfes.

The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding; it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. The third fruit of friendship is aid, and bearing a part in all actions and occasions.

-BACON.

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

-"BIBLE-PROVERBS."

Friendship multiplies joys and divides griefs.

Prof. Johnson's edition.