The more one does and sees and feels the more one is able to do and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home and love and understanding companionship.
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself who care little for his pursuits and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but while their companions slept they were toiling upward in the night.
Frontiersmen good and bad gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future have been my camp companions. Thus I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher and I would like to teach them something.
True happiness arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions like aspirin and aches or June and moon or good people and noble ventures.