“One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are few.”

“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.”

“The average man is happier in the wrong with a crowd, than he is in the right with only one or two companions.”

“That's the trouble with foreign travel. You spend half your time trying to find edible food, and the rest fighting off men who profess extravagant love to your female companions. I'm amazed how many women believe outright lies from foreigners.”

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“284. A Man knows his Companion in a long Journey and a little Inn.”

“God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a female companion so that he might feel his solitude more acutely.”

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”

“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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.”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”