Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is
somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a
single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn’t pay to make enemies. Lead
the life that will make you kindly and friendly to every one about you, and you
will be surprised what a happy life you will live.
We learn our virtues from the friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
The way to make a true friend is to be one Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrows and double our joys Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; It is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.