THOUGHTS TO CHEW ON

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend: one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and the worst of us, and who loves us, in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in the day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who will cheer us in the day of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battles as we can. – Charles Kingsley