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THE BOOK OF
FRIENDSHIP
A LITTLE MANUAL OF
COMRADESHIP
By
REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN
PHILADELPHIA
HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY
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Copyright, 1909, by
HOWARD E. ALTEMUS.
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THE BOOK OF
FRIENDSHIP
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THE BOOK OF
FRIENDSHIP
When I have attemptedto join myself toothers by services, itproved an intellectualtrick,—no more. They eatyour service like apples, and leaveyou out. But love them, and theyfeel you, and delight in you all thetime.
’Tis for my love,—’tis for my friend alone,
And not for any rate that friendship bears
In heaven or on earth.
Old friends are the only oneswhose hold is upon our inmost being;others but half replace them.
True friends appear less mov’dthan counterfeit.
It is sublime to feel and sayof another, I need nevermeet, or speak, or write tohim; we need not reënforceourselves, or send tokens of remembrance;I rely on him as onmyself; if he did thus and thus, Iknow it was right.
A true Friendship is as wise asit is tender. The parties to ityield implicitly to the guidance oftheir love, and know no other lawbut kindness.
Friendship is a vase,which, when it is flawedby heat or violence or accident,may as well bebroken at once; it can never betrusted after. The more gracefuland ornamental it was, the moreclearly do we discern the hopelessnesso