Excerpt from Mosaic Essays: Friendship, Love, Happiness, Nature Success A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Emerson. G g Q. Friendship is love without either flowers or veil. - J. C. Hare. $3 g Friendship is that by which the world is most blessed and receives most good. Jeremy Taylor. 3, g g Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, anc. - Cicero. Gag; Friendship is the highest de gree of perfection in society. - Montaigne. G, g g Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.-augustine Birrell. Ggg Friend is a word of royal tone; friend is a poem all alone, A Persian Poet. G g 3 Friend ship divine, true happiness of heaven, sole motion of the sole wherein excess is righteous - Voltaire. G Q g The only rose without thorns is friendship. Mlle. Dc Scuderi. G g 9, Reason is the torch of friendship, judgment its guide, tenderness its aliment. -de Bonald. Gag, We can 'never replace a friend When a man is fortunate enough to have sev eral, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship. - Schiller. Gag, We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.