document.write("And a youth said, \\\"Speak to us of Friendship.\\\"<br /><br />Your friend is your needs answered.<br /><br />He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.<br /><br />And he is your board and your fireside.<br /><br />For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.<br /><br />When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the \\\"nay\\\" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the \\\"ay.\\\"<br /><br />And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;<br /><br />For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.<br /><br />When you part from your friend, you grieve not;<br /><br />For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.<br /><br />And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.<br /><br />For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.<br /><br />And let your best be for your friend.<br /><br />If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.<br /><br />For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?<br /><br />Seek him always with hours to live.<br /><br />For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.<br /><br />And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.<br /><br />For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.");