Thursday's Quote

This is from the estimable 19th century historian Henry Adams (great grandson of the second president, grandson of the sixth). He wrote a classic history of the early republic, and later one fo the exceptinal memoirs of his age (The Education of Henry Adams). One imagines that it was from experience that he deerived the following:

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many,
three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a
certain parallelism in life, a community of
thought, a rivalry of aim."