--_Newton._ 668 If you wink at your friend's vices you make them your own. 669 Without a friend the world is but a wilderness. --_German._ 670 Absolute friends are very rare. 671 Friends, but few on earth, and therefore dear. --_Pollok._ 672 It is to chance we owe our relatives, to choice our friends. 673 Equals make the best friends. 674 False friends are like our shadows, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. --_Bovee._ 675 There are plenty acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. --_Chinese._ 676 By my skill I have got many acquaintances, my manners very many friends. 677 Friends are lost by calling often, and calling seldom. 678 CHOOSING FRIENDS. We ought always to make choice of persons of such worth and honor for our friends, that, if they should even cease to be so, they will not abuse our confidence, nor give us cause to fear them as enemies. --_Addison._ 679 Let us make the best of our friends while we have them, for how long we shall keep them is uncertain. 680 Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try. --_Claude Mermet._ 681 Friends are sometimes like titled husbands, easy to get, if you have enough money. --_H. L. Meader._ 682 Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. 683 My treasures are my friends. 684 Without friends, no one would choose to live, even if he had all other good things. 685 Old friends and old ways ought not to be disdained. --_Danish._ 686 FRIENDS--PAUCITY OF Friends, but few on earth, and therefore dear. --_Pollok._ 687 The poor man's assets are his friends. 688 Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give such will cease to love. --_Fuller._ 689 RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN. Baxter said:--"I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth. If I thought I should never know, and consequently never love them after this life, I should number them with temporal things, and love them as such; but I now delightfully converse with my pious friends, in a firm persuasion that I shall converse with them forever; and I take comfort in those that are dead or absent, believing that I shall shortly meet them in heaven, and love them with a heavenly love."