The Divine Glamor of Friendship

"Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamor:he had imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together and embracing when they parted, the people who dined together with so many smiles,- you will scarcely believe me, but he imagined that they were extracting from all that congeniality great store of satisfaction."

-Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey