Making Friends

Such is the brief topic assigned to me for this essay. However, though the topic is brief, it is pregnant with meaning. For ''making friends" is a beautiful activity but also a very difficult art. To see this it is necessary that we have a correct conception of what constitutes a true friend. Who is our true friend? What characterizes him? First of all he resembles us. In a sense he is our equal. There is affinity between him and us. For, "Can two walk together except they be agreed?" (Amos...