A friend i
s a per
son with whom I may be
sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at la
st in the pre
sence of a man
so real and equal, that I may drop even tho
se undermo
st garment
s of di
ssimulation, courte
sy, and
second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the
simplicity and wholene
ss with which one chemical atom meet
s another.
