Friendship Day Special

"I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.


I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?


Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is
what we think of it; the tree is the real thing: I desire so to conduct
the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to
lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I
shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down
inside me. -Abraham Lincoln

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend
that he is superior to the other. -Honore de Balzac

Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and
affairs of love. -William Shakespeare

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. -T.S. Eliot

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief. -Swedish proverb

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine
of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater
part of life is sunshine. -Thomas Jefferson