Novel(s)

                                                  Charlotte's Web 

                                                                     by E.B White

(1)“Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.'
You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”

(2)“I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?” 

...I thought that the first excerpt fit into my first quote by Aristotle better, because I felt that there has to be a reason as to why someone would choose friendship over all other goods. That bit that I took from Charlotte's web explained quite well a reason , which is that if you are a friend to someone else, you will not be left empty handed. They will surely repay the favor in the future.

Then excerpt #2, also from Charlotte's Web, I felt fit well with both of my quotations. This is because, you never know what is going to turn out with friendship. As it says, "friendship is a real gamble". But that's where you have to take a chance and see whether or not you find a good, working friendship, or whether you took a wrong turn, and found yourself left with a knife in your back...