Who then is free?—­the wise, who well maintains
An empire o’er himself; whom neither chains,
Nor want, nor death, with slavish fear inspire;
Who boldly answers to his warm desire;
Who can ambition’s vainest gifts despise;
Firm in himself, who on himself relies;
Polish’d and round, who runs his proper course,
And breaks misfortune with superior force. 

          
                          —­Horace.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people’s energy, intellect, and virtues.—­Channing.

He was the freeman whom the truth made free;
Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke;
Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul,
In spite of fools consulted seriously. 

          
                          —­Pollock.

Friendship.—­Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.—­Cicero.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumping on your back
His sense of your great merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it. 
—­Cowper.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.—­Plautus.

Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not.—­Proverbs 27:10.

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.—­Vaughan.

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

A friendship that makes the least noise is very often the most useful; for which reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.  —­Addison.

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.—­George Washington.

No friend’s a friend till he shall prove a friend.—­Beaumont and Fletcher.

The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies,—­cold friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm friends.—­Lavater.

Purchase no friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will cease to love.—­Fuller.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.—­Henry home.

Real friendship is a slow grower, and never thrives unless engrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.—­Chesterfield.

There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art:  let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.—­Sir Walter Raleigh.