“Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.”
“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”
“If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.”
“Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually (as the phrase is) king of his company: and in his most habitual company the husband who has a wife inferior to him is always so.”
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
“There is nothing more unsociable than man, and nothing more sociable: unsociable by his vice, sociable by his nature.”