A Friend
The first person who comes in when the whole world has gone out
A bank or credit on which we can draw supplies of confidence, counsel, sympathy, help and love
One who combines for you alike the pleasures and benefits of society and solitude
A jewel whose lustre the strong acids of poverty and misfortune cannot dim
One who multiplies joys, divide griefs and whose honesty is inviolable
One who loves the truth and you and will tell the truth in spite of you
The triple alliance of the three great powers, love, sympathy and help
A watch which beats true for all time and never runs down
A permanent fortification when one's affairs are in a stage of seige
One who to himself is true and therefore must be so to you
A balancing pole to him who walks across the tight rope of life
The link in life's long chain that bears the greatest strain
A harbor of refuge from the stormy waves of adversity
One who considers my need before my deserving
The jewel that shines brightest in the darkness
A stimulant to the nobler side of nature
A star of hope in the clouds of adversity
A diamond in the ring of acquaintance
A volume of sympaty bond in cloth
Friendship, one soul in two bodies
An insurance against misanthropy
One truer to me than I am myself
One who understands our silence
A link of gold in the chain of life
The essence of pure devotion
The sunshine of calamity
A second right hand.