You will all find, if you haven’t found it out already, that a time
comes in every human friendship when you must go down into the depths
of yourself, and lay bare what is there to your friend, and wait in
fear for his answer. A few moments may do it; and it may be that you
never do it but once. But done it must be, if the friendship is to be
worth the name. You must find out what is there, at the very root and
bottom of one another’s hearts; and if you are at one there, nothing on
earth can, or at least ought, to sunder you.