A True Friend vs. A False Friend

Proverbs 17:17

“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” 

"There are many false friends who profess love for their own advantage — and reveal their insincerity when they have no more ground to hope that their selfish interests will be served by it. There are fickle friends who love for a time, and grow indifferent to our interests, without any reason but their own inconstancy.

But a true friend is steady in his love, and times of prosperity and adversity, honor and dishonor, evil report and good report — make no more difference to him, than the changes of the air to a man of a healthy constitution." ~ George Lawson, 1821