’Tis thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends. 
—­Gay.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.  —­Dr. Johnson.

An act, by which we make one friend and one enemy, is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude.—­Colton.

That friendship will not continue to the end that is begun for an end.  —­Quarles.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in continue firm and constant.—­Socrates.

We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are willing to pay the price, a self-sacrificing love.—­PELOUBET.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.  —­Bovee.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.—­Franklin.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.—­Sir W. Temple.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.—­Theophrastus.

Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness.—­Mlle. De Scuderi.

Who friendship with a knave hath made,
Is judg’d a partner in the trade. 
—­Gay.

Thou mayest be sure that he who will in private tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred.—­Sir Walter Raleigh.

He is happy that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of his friend.—­Warwick.

I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polish’d manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. 

          
                          —­Cowper.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.—­Dr. Johnson.

Frugality.—­Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.—­Burke.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.—­Dr. Johnson.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.—­Cicero.

Futurity.—­It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.—­J.F.  Boyes.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty done.—­George MACDONALD.

Trust no future howe’er pleasant;
Let the dead past bury its dead;
Act,—­act in the living present,
Heart within and God o’erhead! 
—­Longfellow.

The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.—­Seneca.