--_Thomas A'Kempis._ 714 True friendship is one of the greatest blessings upon earth; it makes the cares and anxieties of life sit easy; provides us with a partner in every affliction to alleviate the burthen, and is a sure resort against every accident and difficulty that can happen. 715 True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. --_Colton._ 716 Those who speak always and those who never speak, are equally unfit for friendship. 717 He who never gives advice, and he who never takes it are alike unworthy of friendship. 718 He who is worthy of friendship at all will remember in his prosperity those who were his friends in his adversity. 719 Value the friendship of him who stands by you in a storm; swarms of insects will surround you in the sunshine. 720 No matter how poor and mean a man is, his friendship is worth more than his hate. 721 Good fruit never comes from a bad tree. --_Portuguese._ 722 There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. --_Haliburton._ 723 _Groping for the Door._--O door, so close, yet so far off! --_Miss Mulock._ 724 If you would have your name chime melodiously in the ears of future days, cultivate faith, and not doubt, giving unto every man credit for the good he does, and never attribute base motives to beautiful acts. --_Unknown._ 725 _Future_:--The future does not come from before to meet us, but comes streaming up from behind over our heads. --_Rahel._ 726 _Future--to be met without Fear_:--Look not mournfully into the past,--it comes not back again; wisely improve the present,--it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear, and with a manly heart. --_Longfellow._ G 727 One thing obtained with difficulty is far better than a hundred things procured with ease. --_The Talmud._ 728 Gain, has oft, with treacherous hopes led men to ruin. --_Sophocles._ 729 Either hand must wash the other; If you take, then you must give. 730 Gain has a pleasant odor. 731 Prefer loss before unjust gain; for that brings grief but once; this forever. --_Chilon._ 732 Gain at the expense of reputation should be called loss. 733 No pains, no gains. --_Italian._ 734 It is impossible to be just, if one is not generous. --_Joseph Roux._ 735