a friend is
a person with whom I m
ay be sincere. Before him I m
ay think
aloud. I
am
arrived
at l
ast in the presence of
a m
an so re
al
and equ
al, th
at I m
ay drop even those undermost g
arments of dissimul
ation, courtesy,
and second thought, which men never put off,
and m
ay de
al with him with the simplicity
and wholeness with which one chemic
al
atom meets
another.
