For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"

A Woman's Thoughts about Women. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," etc. [i.e. D. M. Mulock, afterwards Craik]. (ed. 1858)