GOLD AND SILVER

OLD wisdom tells us we can light a thousand candles from one candle, and that first candle will lose none of its radiance.

The poet Alexander Pope had a similar philosophy regarding friends.

“My friendships are increased by new ones,” he wrote, “yet no part of the warmth I felt for the old is diminished!”

Here’s to friends, new and old.

Some wise but anonymous person (also) wrote the following lines:

Make new friends but keep the old.

One is silver,

The other gold.