“A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have afriend, who knows the best and the worst of us, and loves us in spite of all our faults. In spite of all our faults! It was not the least among the many fine traits of Kingsley’s character, that he took his friends as he found them, and loved them for what they really were, rather than for what he fancied or wished them to be. . . . To the last he was ready to meet and make friends, to love and be beloved, with the freshness of youth.”
From Life of C. Kingsley
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. A want of discernment cannot be an ingredient in it.”
THOREAU
“Once in an age God finds us a friend who loves in us not a false, imaginary, and unreal character, but looking through all the rubbish and imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature.”
Mrs H. B. STOWE
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