The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.
A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.