Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.
Harriet Beecher Stoweit isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
Harriet Beecher Stowe