roducing.--_Goldsmith._

Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this
score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be
adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who certainly
cannot help themselves.--_Colton._

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to
one if they hang long together.--_Douglas Jerrold._

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for if a man cannot
attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of
them shorter.--_Cowley._

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our
presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, she has made them
fortunate.--_Montaigne._

See'st thou not what various fortunes the Divinity makes man to pass
through, changing and turning them from day to day?--_Euripides._

Fortune is but a synonymous word for nature and necessity.--_Bentley._

Foolish I deem him who, thinking that his state is blest, rejoices in
security; for Fortune, like a man distempered in his senses, leaps now
this way, now that, and no man is always fortunate.--_Euripides._

They say Fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good
woman, and gives to those who merit.--_George Eliot._

If Fortune has fairly sat on a man, he takes it for granted that life
consists in being sat upon. But to be coddled on Fortune's knee, and
then have his ears boxed, that is aggravating.--_Charles Buxton._

~Fraud.~--The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and
the more greedily will it be swallowed; since folly will always find
faith wherever impostors will find impudence.--_Colton._

~Friendship.~--Friendship has steps which lead up to the throne of God,
though all spirits come to the Infinite; only Love is satiable, and like
Truth, admits of no three degrees of comparison; and a simple being
fills the heart.--_Richter._

Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful,
passing the love of women.--_Bible._

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule
through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than
yourself.--_Douglas Jerrold._

Experience has taught me that the only friends we can call our own, who
can have no change, are those over whom the grave has closed; the seal
of death is the only seal of friendship.--_Byron._

What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor
am