COMPANIONSHIP
Bacon, Francis
It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first, because one cannot hold out in that proportion.
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope
No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
Take rather than give the tone of the company you are in.—If you have parts, you will show them, more or less, upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's choosing than of your own.
Coleridge, William Hart
Be cautious with whom you associate, and never give your company or your confidence to those of whose good principles you are not sure.
Colton, Caleb C.
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Fielding, Henry
Wicked companions invite and lure us to hell.
Home, Henry
It is expedient to have an acquaintance with those who have looked into the world; who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.
Horneck, Anthony
Evil companions are the devil's agents whom he sends abroad into the world to debauch virtue, and to advance his kingdom; and by these ambassadors he effects more than he could in his own person.
Landor, Walter Savage
What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
Lessing, Gotthold E.
The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging, alike, at all hours; above all, of a golden temper, and steadfast as an anchor.—For such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profoundest thinker.
Taylor, Jeremy
No man can be provident of his time, who is not prudent in the choice of his company.
Walton, Izaak
Good company, and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
