—Bingham.
And when two souls are changed and mixed so,
It is what they and none but they can do.
This, this is friendship, that abstracted flame
Which grovelling mortals know not how to name.
—Philips.
By friendship I mean the greatest love and the greatest usefulness, and the most open communication, and the most noble sufferings, and the most exemplary faithfulness, and the severest truth, and the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of mind, of which brave men and women are capable.