Love
In a word, such a friendship should be strong and sweet; altogether holy, sacred, divine and spiritual.
Ah, my child, while you slept God watched over you with His boundless Love, and breathed thoughts of peace into your heart!
If love is the milk of life, devotion is the cream thereof.
To my mind all other friendship is but as a shadow with respect to this, its links mere fragile glass compared to the golden bond of true devotion.
Drink freely of the sacred wine of love, and it will cure you of the evil tempers which lead you to these perverse judgments.
A child is easily moved to fondle its mother when she gives it sweet things, but if he kisses her in return for wormwood or camomile it is a proof of very real affection on his part.
Devotion is the sweetest of sweets, the queen of virtues, the perfection of love.
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