The importance of friendship
most classes, but the wise man, individuals. To his Friend a man’s peculiar character appears in every feature and in every action, and it is thus drawn out and improved by him.
Think of the importance of Friendship in the education of men.
‘He that hath love and judgment too,
Sees more than any other doe.’
It will make a man honest; it will make him a hero; it will make him a saint. It is the state of the just dealing with the just, the magnanimous with the magnanimous, the sincere with the sincere, man with man.
And it is well said by another poet—
‘Why love among the virtues is not known,
Is that love is them all contract in one.’
All the abuses which are the object of reform with the philanthropist, the statesman,
