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judicious love; justice, a love which gives everyone his due; fortitude, a 
generous love; and so of the others.”* 
Who wonders, then, that St. Paul, to celebrate the praises of this 
queen of virtues, says: “Though I should speak with the tongues of an¬ 
gels and men; though I should have knowledge enough to fathom all mys¬ 
teries, and faith enough to remove mountains, though I should give all my 
goods to the poor and my body to the flames, and have not charity, I am 
nothing—everything else is useless to me” (1 Cor. xiii. 1). 
Onyx. 
The onyx is the banded carnelian, cut across the layers to exhibit 
two stripes of black and white, brown and white, etc. Some regard it as 
the “shell” or composite formation of two different colored strata, one un¬ 
derlying the other, on which cameos are cut. 
Friendship. 
“Friendship’s an abstract of love’s noble flame, 
’Tis love refined, and purged from all its dross; 
The next to angel’s love, if not the same; 
As strong as passion is, though not so gross: 
It antedates a glad Eternity, 
And is a Heaven in epitome. 
—Katherine Phillips. 
5 KIENDS cherish more kindly feelings towards one another than they 
do towards the world at large. They are one heart and one soul. 
St. Jerome compares friendship to a mirror, which presents a faith¬ 
ful image of the object before it. If one who stands before a mirror, 
*De moribus, «ccl. cath., c. xv. n, 25. 
