Excerpt from The Wealth of Friendship
Friendship is a religion between two human souls; the truest religion is a friendship between the human and the divine. Revelations of the divinity in humanity occur when God is the great personal friend of man. These higher discoveries occur according to the same law that operates as between human beings in a spiritual friendship when each makes a revelation not only to each, but of each and within each other. There is no such challenge, at once awakening and commanding to all that is chivalric, sweet and strong, as is offered by a true friend approaching the soul of a man through these ministries. It is impossible to keep the forces of friendship out of the realm of religion. Whenever any fine soul touches the subject, he forces his thought of it into the region of ethics, adoration, worship.
It is only the greatest literature that sounds truly the keynote of friendship. Antony may have over-estimated Caesar, but Shakespeare, greater than either of them, was too fine a dramatist to withhold from the tongue of Antony greater words concerning him than the Caesar of history will bear.
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