“[A] brilliant man is his own best company, unless he can find other company of the same sort.”

“The chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little joy he takes in other people’s company. ”

“A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.”

“A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

“It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5 million. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.”

“My idea of good company… is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”

“A man is known by the company he keeps.”

“Mr. Blingham, and may he fry in his own cooking-oil, was assistant treasurer of the Flaver-Saver Company.”

“A soldier's death, he thought, was a happy one, because a man, even in the throes of awful pain, would die in the best company of the world.”

“The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.”